title: GAE: 30-40 Second Queries to Cloud SQL
body: <p>I am running a Google App Engine Java web application with Spring, Hibernate and MySQL (Cloud SQL). Locally all my queries take about 500ms each but once I deploy my app some queries can take as long as 40 seconds.  When I turn on MySQL statistics (via org.hibernate.stat=DEBUG) no single query is taking an abnormally large amount of time but each time a query is executed, it has to acquire a JDBC connection which takes half a second. "569422089 nanoseconds spent acquiring 1 JDBC connections;"  That's way too long.  Is there something I can look for?</p>