Ah I see, the bottleneck is in Net::S3::Amazon, which appears to be using an XPath approach to get at the needed information. Looks like list_all calls list_bucket_all, which calls list_bucket, which does the XPath dirty work.

If I were in your shoes, I might try to write an alternative sub to list_bucket which uses an approach other than XPath. If you look in:

http://search.cpan.org/src/PAJAS/XML-LibXML-1.65/lib/XML/LibXML/XPathC
+ontext.pm

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sub find calls new for each node it needs to find:

sub find {
    my ($self, $xpath, $node) = @_;

    my ($type, @params) = $self->_guarded_find_call('_find', $xpath, $
+node);

    if ($type) {
        return $type->new(@params);
    }
    return undef;
}

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This is where the OO interface of XML::LibXML::XPathContext is your bottleneck. You could probably develop a faster interface using a streaming parser, but how much faster I don't know. You'll need some sort of optimization in there to get a faster result. Sorry I can't be of much more help.

UPDATE - you could also use some of the modules lower level functions, and attempt to parallelize the operation by having each cpu count x percent of the buckets. That's probably easier than speeding up the xml parser, and I think it is probably your best bet to get a two or more times speedup. You could fork off a process that writes the results to a temp file, and then add up all the results at the end. I think that may be your shortest course to victory.

In reply to Re^3: Module uses loads of CPU.. or is it me by redhotpenguin
in thread Module uses loads of CPU.. or is it me by hsinclai

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