Oops. I noticed my versions were behind. I upgraded DBI and DBD::Informix.
I'm still getting the same behavior (14.3 seconds to time out), so I'm still curious about what might be going on. Thanks, j $ perl -MDBI -e'DBI->installed_versions' Perl : 5.008004 (i686-linux) OS : linux (2.6.4-52-smp) DBI : 1.53 DBD::Sybase : 1.04 DBD::Sponge : 11.10 DBD::Proxy : install_driver(Proxy) failed: Can't locate RPC/PlClient.pm in @INC DBD::Informix : 2005.02 DBD::File : 0.35 DBD::ExampleP : 11.12 DBD::DBM : 0.03
