in reply to network socket send loop is very cpu intensive

I wonder what's going on in the sendtolive sub. Are you sure that it's being all that it can be? Is this from a CPAN module or was it written by yourself? Are you creating a new socket/object/whatever each time the sendtolive sub is called? (Avoid that, if you are.)

Aside from the directory handle issues, that sub call looks like the biggest suspect. I can't really tell though, w/o code.

Hanlon's Razor - "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity"
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