Package: php5 Version: 5.3.5-1 Severity: normal Patch use_embedded_timezonedb.patch, calls stat() on every single file in /usr/share/zoneinfo upon first use of tje timezone data - in total over 600 syscalls. Example: $ strace -s 100 -r php -n -r"date_default_timezone_set('GMT');" 2>&1 | grep zoneinfo | head -10 0.000110 open("/usr/share/zoneinfo/", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 0.000031 stat64("/usr/share/zoneinfo//localtime", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=3661, ...}) = 0 0.000061 stat64("/usr/share/zoneinfo//Zulu", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=118, ...}) = 0 0.000055 stat64("/usr/share/zoneinfo//WET", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1873, ...}) = 0 0.000055 stat64("/usr/share/zoneinfo//W-SU", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2194, ...}) = 0 0.000056 stat64("/usr/share/zoneinfo//Universal", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=118, ...}) = 0 0.000056 stat64("/usr/share/zoneinfo//UTC", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=118, ...}) = 0 0.000054 stat64("/usr/share/zoneinfo//US", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 0.000055 stat64("/usr/share/zoneinfo//UCT", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=118, ...}) = 0 0.000054 stat64("/usr/share/zoneinfo//Turkey", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2721, ...}) = 0 Original discussion: http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54250
-- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.31 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages php5 depends on: ii libapache2-mod-php5 5.3.5-1 server-side, HTML-embedded scripti ii php5-common 5.3.5-1 Common files for packages built fr php5 recommends no packages. php5 suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org