Hello, I have found the culprit that makes fetching slow.
Unbelievable, but it's none other than the syslog calls in trace() ! When I hacked it to have syslog off and verbosity to stderr on (the -v switch does not work for some reason), and just redirected stderr to a file, I got over 180 messages per second ! (With both of my patches - I think they're still needed). Therefore I'm writing to tell users that the workaround is to lower the TRACE_LEVEL as low as you can live with. And, to tell developers that we probably need a log file of our own. I'm unable to implement it as I am not familiar enough with the C library, and with the code (to understand where the file should be opened and closed), and with working with files from forked processes. This is a MAJOR speed issue. I think it's a blocker for 2.0.1. Yours, Mikhail Ramendik
