Perl slowness

[Noam Rathaus]

Hi,

I have two machines, their hardware is not identical, but their installation
is.

One is a 3 years old DELL server, while the other is a 1 year old server.

One is running 2.6.26-2-686 while the other 2.6.30-1-686

What I am seeing is slow startup - emphasis on startup, the code works fast
once its running - of perl scripts

Even the smallest perl script such as this:
===
#!/usr/bin/perl

use lib '/usr/local/MySystem/lib';

use DB;

===

Take 7 seconds to start, in comparison to 0.030secods

If I don't use the "use DB;" which my package

It loads fast

I am trying to figure out why, I checked the HD speeds via hdparam, the
newer server is 1.5 times faster 103MB/sec

I tried to see what libraries were being used, used strace, but I can't see
something "big" that is causing the delay.

The "use DB;" can be replaced with any other "custom" library package I
wrote, they all take 2-7 seconds to load, while on the other machine it
takes negligible time

Does someone have a "thread" to cling to?

Thanks,
Noam Rathaus
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