On 27/08/2008, at 6:57 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> > wrote: >> on 8-26-2008 2:08 PM Karanbir Singh spake the following: >>> >>> Akemi Yagi wrote: >>>> >>>> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Florin Andrei <florin at andrei.myip.org >>>> > >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> If your Perl apps are unusually slow on CentOS 5, have a look at >>>>> this >>>>> blog: >>>>> >>>>> http://blog.vipul.net/2008/08/24/redhat-perl-what-a-tragedy/ >>>> >>>> Summary: The Upstream Vendor version of Perl has a patch to the >>>> "bless[]" function that makes it /extremely/ slow. >>> >>> Reliable info heard on the grapevine indicates 5.3 would have the >>> fix's >>> required. >>> >> So that means about 6 months away from a fix? >> > > Unless upstream bundles a hotfix that is available for people... Such a hotfix was released in the last couple of days. A big moment for RHEL/CentOS + Perl users. :)