Hello,
I've been fighting this problem for a while, and now it's time to ask the experts. Please also CC me on this, I'm only on the list as a digest.
Dale:
Enable the log-long-format and log-slow-queries on your server, and see if you have some hogs that lock your table for a long time once in a while. This would explain the results you are observing.
-- Sasha Pachev Create online surveys at http://www.surveyz.com/
-- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]