And Perrin gets the gold star. Right on both counts.

Re-profiling with dprofpp -r (d'oh. There's an option which I'll need to remember) yielded:

Total Elapsed Time = 22.28669 Seconds
         Real Time = 22.28669 Seconds
Exclusive Times
%Time ExclSec CumulS #Calls sec/call Csec/c  Name
 59.2   13.20 13.200    314   0.0420 0.0420  DBI::db::ping

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Basically, every time it tried to grab a cached database handle, it would ping it first to make sure it was still valid. Useful in persistent environments (mod_perl, etc.) or long running scripts, but not so much on a website that's all CGI and nothing survives long. I figured I could take the risk of having the database handle vanish in that time, so I shut off the constant re-pinging.

Next profile dropped the total run time down to 5.45 seconds, with 83% of my time spent executing queries. Much more reasonable. And I'm sure I can get that runtime down even farther with some judicious indexing.

Thanks!

In reply to Re^2: My CGI is slow, but I don't think it's my fault. by jimt
in thread My CGI is slow, but I don't think it's my fault. by jimt

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