From: Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...>
Date: 2007-11-15T12:44:59+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby incredibly slow (update 2)

On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:27:46 -0500, Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@acm.org>
wrote:

>On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:03:36 -0500, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net>
>wrote:
>>
>>$ time ruby -rsocket -e 'p Socket.gethostbyname("127.0.0.1")'
>>["localhost", ["test"], 2, "\177\000\000\001"]
>>
>>real    0m0.042s
>>user    0m0.010s
>>sys     0m0.009s
>
>It's a solid 8 seconds on my machine. But ordinary web page access is
>nothing like that. What is this telling us?

I flushed dns cache (windows xp), same result. changed from system
default DNS to some specific known DNS servers. Same result.

?

Ron Jeffries
www.XProgramming.com