-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Justin Mason wrote: > Rosenbaum, Larry M. writes: >>> From: Loren Wilton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> Subject: Re: Poor performance with v3.2.0 >>> >>> It would be interesting on some system experiencing this slowdown to >> put >>> 'use bytes' back into SA and see what happens with the performance. >> This >>> wouldn't be any sort of a solution, but it would be an interesting >> data >>> point. >> Interesting indeed. I added "use bytes" and performance is much >> improved. It's approximately back to where it was with v3.1.8. So what >> does this all mean? > > Did you have a massive volume of "Malformed UTF-8" warning messages in the > syslog output? > > 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. > > --j. > >> In case it matters, here's the output of "perl -V": >> >> Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 8) configuration:
If he is getting the UTF-8 error, this would indeed be odd, since he is using perl-5.8.8 which supposedly handles those regexps which causes the error. What SARE rules are you running Larry? - -- -Doc Penguins: Do it on the ice. 8:44am up 4 days, 16:55, 17 users, load average: 0.18, 0.30, 0.37 SARE HQ http://www.rulesemporium.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with CentOS - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGQ2F5qOEeBwEpgcsRAkb1AJ9w8NMLub62N0wOyjbr2Ar8I0zTxACfc1/c u4cH8vGFdpmOTFxuK0qAl3E= =iViW -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
