On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 15:41:14 -0500, Medora Schauer <mschauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have just upgraded from 7.3.4 to 8.1.4 and now *all* db access calls > are extremely slow. I didn't need to preserve any old data so at this > point all my tables are empty. Just connecting to a db takes several > seconds. > > I know I'm not giving much to go on but I'm stumped. Can anyone suggest > how I might track down the cause of this problem? That connections are slow makes me think DNS is worth looking at. It might be that reverse lookups are timing out.