The only thing I can see at this time is the word "remote". Any time you venture outside the loopback (127.0.0.1), all sorts of external factors come into play; dns lookup, hop latency, etc. I'm not suggesting that is where the problem lies, just that more areas are opened up to check this issue. Do you (or any of your team) experience this delay via SSH, SCP, SFTP, etc.? Is there noticeable improvement at different times of the day? Any firewall in place? Can you tail your network to see if it jives with Tracy's database request listing? I'm just thinkin' out loud.