Strange 5 second pause with PHP command line interface (related to mysql/mysqli extension)

Question

I\'m getting a strange 5 to 7 second pause when executing PHP scripts from the command-line PHP client (PHP 5.2 on Windows).

During this pause the PHP script just ap

Answer 1

it's a bug in mysql. you can solve it by getting the latest libmysql.dll (5.1.31 or higher. some older versions also work - see second link). make sure that's the libmysql.dll actually used and there are no other libmysql.dlls in your path. see the related php issue for details.