Re: Serious performance bug in Perl

1998-06-24 Thread Stephen Zander
As the proud owner of that particular patch, I guess I should say something... :) Daniel == Daniel Martin at cush [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel Ok, I've looked at it. Daniel I really don't know quite what to do with this. On the Daniel one hand, automatically reading the shadow

Re: Serious performance bug in Perl

1998-06-21 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Darren/Torin/Who Ever... [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Daniel Martin, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: My... it's been a while since I was investigating perl internals (writing C code that was callable from perl) - at least two years, which

Re: Serious performance bug in Perl

1998-06-19 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Chris Fearnley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 12:38:45PM -0500, Richard Kaszeta wrote: Christopher J. Fearnley writes (Re: Serious performance bug in Perl): to call it (instead of the default perl - 5.004.04-6). Performance improved several hundred-fold. So I believe

Re: Serious performance bug in Perl

1998-06-19 Thread Ben Gertzfield
Daniel == Daniel Martin at cush [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel It's a perl thing. I can almost guarantee it. The Daniel problem is perl's shadow password support and it's getpw* Daniel functions. Whenever these functions are called (and Daniel assigned to a variable; if you

Re: Serious performance bug in Perl

1998-06-19 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel == Daniel Martin at cush [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel It's a perl thing. I can almost guarantee it. The Daniel problem is perl's shadow password support and it's getpw* Daniel functions. Whenever these functions are called

Re: Serious performance bug in Perl

1998-06-19 Thread Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Daniel Martin, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: My... it's been a while since I was investigating perl internals (writing C code that was callable from perl) - at least two years, which somehow seems much longer. Well, I'll have my machine download

Re: Serious performance bug in Perl

1998-06-18 Thread Christopher J. Fearnley
On Mon, Jun 15, 1998 at 04:43:13AM -0700, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote: Chris Fearnley, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: But yesterday I upgraded a bo system to hamm which has a 3000 line /etc/passwd. Now adduser takes OVER ONE MINUTE to find a UID and GID for the new user.

Re: Serious performance bug in Perl

1998-06-18 Thread Richard Kaszeta
Christopher J. Fearnley writes (Re: Serious performance bug in Perl): to call it (instead of the default perl - 5.004.04-6). Performance improved several hundred-fold. So I believe the problem is either in perl or libc6. Any suggestions on how to resolve this? As I said before the slowdown

Re: Serious performance bug in Perl

1998-06-18 Thread Dale Scheetz
. If 2.0.7pre3 isn't an improvement over pre1, then I need to know about it, and what is causing it so I can complain upstream about it ;-) Thanks, On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Richard Kaszeta wrote: Christopher J. Fearnley writes (Re: Serious performance bug in Perl): to call it (instead of the default perl

Re: Serious performance bug in Perl

1998-06-18 Thread Chris Fearnley
No, I am not running NIS. Just simple text /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 12:38:45PM -0500, Richard Kaszeta wrote: Christopher J. Fearnley writes (Re: Serious performance bug in Perl): to call it (instead of the default perl - 5.004.04-6). Performance improved several

Re: Serious performance bug in Perl

1998-06-16 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote:' Chris Fearnley, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: But yesterday I upgraded a bo system to hamm which has a 3000 line /etc/passwd. Now adduser takes OVER ONE MINUTE to find a UID and GID for the new user. And my staff is complaining about the wasted

Re: Serious performance bug in Perl

1998-06-15 Thread Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Chris Fearnley, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote: But yesterday I upgraded a bo system to hamm which has a 3000 line /etc/passwd. Now adduser takes OVER ONE MINUTE to find a UID and GID for the new user. And my staff is complaining about the wasted

Re: Serious performance bug in Perl

1998-06-14 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Chris Fearnley wrote: But yesterday I upgraded a bo system to hamm which has a 3000 line /etc/passwd. Now adduser takes OVER ONE MINUTE to find a UID and GID for the new user. And my staff is complaining about the wasted time. Are you sure it's a problem with perl? I've had the

Re: Serious performance bug in Perl

1998-06-14 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Wichert Akkerman wrote:' Previously Chris Fearnley wrote: But yesterday I upgraded a bo system to hamm which has a 3000 line /etc/passwd. Now adduser takes OVER ONE MINUTE to find a UID and GID for the new user. And my staff is complaining about the wasted time. Are you sure it's a problem

Serious performance bug in Perl

1998-06-13 Thread Chris Fearnley
Hi, Originally I thought that it was OK that bug #19085 which I submitted about poor performance in perl was downgraded from important to normal severity because it only affected one application that I wrote. But yesterday I upgraded a bo system to hamm which has a 3000 line /etc/passwd. Now