Re: Sometimes very slow when creating thread

At 19:58 +0000 2/22/04, [email protected] (PerlDiscuss - 
Perl Newsgroups and wrote:
>I have a program with 6 threads.
>At a normal start of the program all is up and running in 4 seconds, BUT
>often it takes 3 minutes!?!
>What happens is that each "threads->create(" takes about 30 seconds to
>create. Print statements before and after and as the first line in the
>thread shows that all the time is spent in the "create method". During
>that time perl runs with 100% CPU!
>Sometime it takes 4 seconds or sometimes 3 minutes to start!
>The platform is Win32 (W2000 and XP).
>Perl is 5.8.2 and 5.8.3.
>Any idea on what is happening and how I could avoid it?
>(Its a very large program with a lot of modules used)

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Liz