// counters on the server side, and need to create infrastructure
// to capture what's being sent by the driver separately.
Thread.sleep(2000);
conn2.createStatement().execute("/* ping */ SELECT 1");
rs = conn2.createStatement().executeQuery("SELECT time FROM information_schema.processlist WHERE id = " + slave2id);
rs.next();
assertTrue("Processlist should be less than 2 seconds due to ping", rs.getInt(1) < 2);
// peg connection to slave2:
ForcedLoadBalanceStrategy.forceFutureServer("slave2:" + portNumber, -1);