Is the script in mod_perl? No.

Is there a high load on the machine? Can't be sure. It's shared with other sites. My site has light traffic.

or a really high http timeout setting? Not sure that's relevent, since this was a new session for the recorded client.

Perhaps it actually took an hour for those two instances to complete. Not likely. They were consecutive, about 55 seconds apart, and from the same client.

Are you sure there's only one copy? Yes, this particular script has only ever had one name and one location. When I FTP changes, I overwrite the old copy.

Is the script on a cluster of machines maybe? Not according to my hosting service.

One other odd observation: After the two anomalous queries, the same client made nine further queries which logged normal responses.

In reply to Re: Re: Script caching? by Dr. Mu
in thread Script caching? by Dr. Mu

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