> PHP?? right?
> if you want this to run under Apache, then it's likely the
> threading of Apache will try to make a separate connection
> for the next user and then bang.. it will be locked out.
> If this is a standalone PHP script, then you are under better
> control of this aspect.
> Alan

No Apache/Web stuff on this one - pure command line.
Just collecting averages - there's something else funny here...back soon.

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