Ahh. Thats the problem:
> 80ms pings to my (remote) database <
In newnews.pl the function indexpost() executes the following two queries very often (for every word of an article):
db_execute("INSERT IGNORE INTO word (title) VALUES ($word)");
db_execute("INSERT IGNORE INTO searchindex (wordid,postid,intitle) VALUES ($wid,$id,0)");
When I change the code to use extended multi-value INSERT's instead things speed up dramatically
@fastforward: Thank You for Your (fast) aid !!
etom