From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2007-11-15T21:24:33+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby incredibly slow (update 2)

Ron Jeffries wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:43:05 -0500, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net>
> wrote:
> 
>> On Nov 14, 2007, at 19:30 , Ron Jeffries 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?
>> Do you get the same result for the IP address (last field)?
> 
> I don't understand the question. 
He's asking if the last element of this:
   ["localhost", ["test"], 2, "\177\000\000\001"]
is the same.

This is possibly a long shot, but what's in your RUBYOPT environment 
variable?

-- 
Alex