RE: Help with slow startup

2010-01-19 Thread Jan Dubois
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Michael Ellery wrote: Thanks for that patch. I've patched the file on my system and rebooted - now I see times shown below. Now my first startup time is only double my steady state time, which seems to be an improvement (previous run was more than 3 times the subsequent

Re: Help with slow startup

2010-01-19 Thread Michael Ellery
On 1/19/2010 4:17 PM, Jan Dubois wrote: On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Michael Ellery wrote: Thanks for that patch. I've patched the file on my system and rebooted - now I see times shown below. Now my first startup time is only double my steady state time, which seems to be an improvement (previous

RE: Help with slow startup

2010-01-19 Thread Jan Dubois
On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Michael Ellery wrote: Can you shed a little light on what this WIN32_SLOPPY_STAT does - I'm guessing it uses a faster set of APIs for gathering file stat info - perhaps at the cost of accuracy? The normal Perl implementation of stat() on Windows actually opens the file.

RE: Help with slow startup

2010-01-18 Thread Jan Dubois
On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Michael Ellery wrote: I have a slow startup problem with a library I have written. The observed behavior is that perl scripts that use my library *intermittently* take 30 seconds to startup. If I run them again immediately thereafter, they drop back down to about 10

Re: Help with slow startup

2010-01-18 Thread Michael Ellery
On 1/18/2010 4:52 PM, Jan Dubois wrote: On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Michael Ellery wrote: I have a slow startup problem with a library I have written. The observed behavior is that perl scripts that use my library *intermittently* take 30 seconds to startup. If I run them again immediately