Posted by Gordon Burditt on 03/11/06 04:00

>There is a point in rendering a page of mine where my script pauses for
>a long time. It is a painful wait - maybe 5 seconds. It is long enough
>that when I try to show the software to people they get bored at that
>point and begin to look away.
>
>I'd like to remove whatever road block slows things down at that point
>in my script, but I am unable to diagnose the problem.
>I am using a
>command

Name that command. Does it have anything to do with networking where
reverse DNS lookups (by either the command or a server it contacts)
might be an issue?

>that is used elsewhere on the page, before and after, without
>delays. There are no calls to the database or the file system.
>
>What could the problem be and how do I fix it?

You didn't tell us what the command was.

Gordon L. Burditt

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