On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Russell Coker
<russell@coker.com.au> wrote:
Anyway I think I've solved this problem. I've edited /etc/hosts on the
database server and added entries for every client system. It seems that the
MySQL server may have been doing DNS lookups or something. It's been working
well since I changed /etc/hosts.
If you start mysqld with the --skip-name-resolve option, you disable this behaviour, and you can get far better performance if your clients don't have reverse DNS entries.