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Fix for Perl slowness on Red Hat/CentOS 5

Some of you may have heard about the kerfuffle surrounding poor Perl performance on Red Hat 5/CentOS 5 – it got a bit of attention on reddit/digg.  Red Hat had been issuing hot fixes to people who complained, but now Karanbir Singh has created an updated Perl package.

This issue should be fixed in RHEL/CentOS 5.3, but until then, if you’re experiencing slowness I’d advise installing this – after appropriate testing on staging/UAT servers of course.

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One Response to “Fix for Perl slowness on Red Hat/CentOS 5”

  1. Robin Bowes Says:
    October 2nd, 2008 at 10:11 am

    This is fixed in a recent release of perl on CentOS 5.2:

    * Thu Aug 28 2008 Marcela Maslanova – 4:5.8.8-15.el5.1
    - add upstream fix for bless/overload problem (changes 31996,32018,32019,
    32025) and perl-5.8.8-bug24254.patch. Without this patch had bless
    poor performance.
    - Resolves: rhbz#460308

    R.

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