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

For me (Zend Server CE on Mac OS X), the imap exetension was the culprit. Disabling it solved the problem.

Anoyone wants to write a PHP extension bisecting script? :)