I think Albannach is on the right track. You should step back and take stock of your entire system and its performance. Not just Perl. What other applications does your server run? It is more likely that some other process or shortage of bandwidth/storage/memory may be the problem.

Does your server also run NNTP? We use to run a news server on our "web" box and finally had to shut it down because it soaked too many resources (disk space, CPU cycles and bandwidth).

Are you running sendmail on it? A couple of our boxes were shut down for a few days because holes in our sendmail daemons allowed spammers to use it as a relay for hundreds of thousands of messages. The effect was gradual not instantaneous. We had to install TCP wrappers to close the holes.

You might want to talk to the System Administrator and find out if they have time accounting activated or can use tools like top to monitor allocated process resources).

If you are running a web server, you might want to check out the message and error logs for potential problems. You can probably generate some connection statistics via the web server administration utilities. Our Netscape server periodically chews up cycles for no apparent reason and has to be stopped and restarted.

Occasionally our backups run at times they shouldn't and slow down the system enough to generate complaints from our Web Services department.

Hope these suggestions yield some results.

In reply to Re: PerlCC -advice on how to by jlongino
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