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.
1 Comment for Fix for Perl slowness on Red Hat/CentOS 5
Robin Bowes | October 2, 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.