Can you please assist me with resolving a trouble with some code that at times is eating up allot of CPU resouces? The code is driven by Perl and calls Expect. The Expect code is basically dumping numerous tables to standard out that is captured into one file. A few of these table dumps are very large and begin eating up allot of CPU resources. The basic flow is the Perl code starts on a Midwest server, makes a system call to Expect, Expect logs into a West server and begins dumping table information to standard out that is being recorded in one file on the Midwest server where the Perl code was launched. 
    eval {
        alarm(9000);
        $expect_flg = $expect_flg + 1;
        $file = "$workdir/$clli.log";
        system($pb_dms, $datakit, $workdir, $file);
        alarm(0);
        $expect_flg = 0;
    };

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