> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Did you have a massive volume of "Malformed UTF-8" warning messages in the > syslog output?
No, I upgraded Perl to v5.8.8, which got rid of the warning messages but there was still a performance problem. Adding "use bytes" seems to have fixed the performance problem. > I have a theory that this would indeed cause major slowdowns, since > every warning message has to be transmitted via UDP to the syslogd > daemon, who then writes it synchronously to disk. That is a pretty > slow operation, and causes I/O.
