This looks like my problem exactly.

http://community.activestate.com/forum-topic/not-getting-full-cpu-usage

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Brian Marshall <[email protected]> wrote:
> We did some testing this morning.
>
> threaded versus forked versus auto all had the same effect.
> Connecting via telnet took ~20 seconds.
>
> When the connect was initiated, perl.exe spiked one of the processor
> cores (it is a quad core machine) to 100%.  During this spike perl.exe
> also claimed some memory (~ 1Mb).  Threaded mode may have made the
> spike bounce from processor to processsor but perl.exe never had more
> than 25% cpu (i.e. 100% of one processor) at a time.
>
> Also I was mistaken; the box is running Windows 2003 Server.  Googling
> shows some posts about perl and win2k3 spiking the processor.  This
> could be a perl problem in general?
>
> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Brian Marshall <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Kristis Makris <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>> On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 13:04 -0500, Brian Marshall wrote:
>>>> My IT man reports the following;
>>>>
>>>> I do see a delay when telneting to the port, 15-20 seconds, but only
>>>> to that port.  It happens regardless of whether I use 127.0.0.1 or
>>>> 10.10.1.31.  The perl.exe process seems to spike one of the processors
>>>> during the delay.
>>>
>>> Do you mean that the daemon listening on 127.0.0.1 spikes the
>>> processor ?
>>
>> I assume he is watching the task list and as he runs telnet the perl
>> process spikes to 100% cpu usage.
>>
>>>
>>> What version of Perl are you using, and what version of Windows ?
>>
>> ActiveState perl 5.10
>>
>> I am fairly certain it is XP with all the latest updates
>>>
>>
>> It feels like our daemon is in some sort of sleep state where it takes
>> a lot of time/processor to wake it up to handle a connection.
>>
>> Brian
>>
>
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