[Toolserver-l] Strangely slow query

[Carl (CBM)]

I am getting a lot of emails about the following query taking too long
and being killed on thyme:

  SELECT ns_id, ns_name FROM toolserver.namespacename  where (ns_type
= 'canonical' or ns_type = 'primary') and dbname = 'enwiki_p'

Some of these emails claim that query ran over 3000 seconds. This
particular query should be quite fast. Is something up with the db
server?

- Carl