And to be honest your 4000ms is entirely too slow anyway. Basically you are trying to get your process back to an unacceptably slow speed. This means at best your page load is somewhere around 4-6 seconds. This is what happens when you run 1,000 queries instead of 4. It seems that your queries and your page need some serious retooling. I will join the list of people willing and able to help if you help us help you.