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 >seems to occur in the get_current_uids subroutine (and possible >get_current_gids). Which has a loop on getpwent (and getgrent). > >Can anyone else duplicate this behavior?
I can duplicate this behavior. Performance gets exponentially better if I move my NIS password records into the local password file. So in my case I am tempted to blame libc6's NIS performance (which in other circumstances I have found to be rather slow anyways) Are you running NIS? -- Richard W Kaszeta Graduate Student/Sysadmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of MN, ME Dept http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]