On 03/06/11 09:28, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
On 3 Jun 2011, at 08:28, Toby Wintermute wrote:
1)
Are they running old Red Hat or CentOS versions?
I ask because the Perl shipped on those was, for quite a long time,
very, very broken due to a vendor patch that made bless() take 1000x
longer than it should. In that case, just using a non-broken Perl will
be extremely faster.
I suspect from the version info and context given that their install
is older than that particular bug (which actually was very limited in
timescale, but it just took them a while to roll out the fix)
It is a custom perl generated from the real perl tarball, not a vendor
modified one. The only "customisation" is to change the name of the perl
binary itself (together with all the library paths etc). This is so that
there is no chance of ever getting vendor and this custom perl packages
mixed up.
Thank you all for your suggestions. I will see whether I can "persuade"
them to upgrade.
Dirk
