Bug 200870

Summary: gethostbyname_r() call takes more time in RHEL 3 than Red Hat 7.2
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Yi Tao <tonyit>
Component: glibcAssignee: Jakub Jelinek <jakub>
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version: 3.0CC: drepper
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Description Yi Tao 2006-08-01 06:18:15 UTC
Description of problem:

A measure of the time taken to call gethostbyname_r() turns out that this API 
takes significantly more time to return than Red Hat 7.2.

Also the recent upgrade from Red Hat 7.2 to RHEL 3 turns out that, the time 
taken by gethostbyname_r() is not as stable/consistently low as previously in 
Red Hat 7.2.


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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Get system time before calling gethostbyname_r();
2. Call gethostbyname_r();
3. Get system time after calling gethostbyname_r();
4. The time taken by gethostbyname_r() is the difference between system times 
of step 3 and step 1.

It is expected to call multiple domain names under both RHEL 3 and Red Hat 7.2

Actual results:
It takes longer time on RHEL3 than on Red Hat 7.2. Also the time used by 
gethostbyname_r() for different domain names on RHEL3 are more diverse than on 
Red Hat 7.2

Expected results:
RHEL3 should be consistently low as, and even lower than Red Hat 7.2 

Additional info:

Comment 1 Ulrich Drepper 2006-08-01 16:10:17 UTC
The implementation does what it has to do.  For DNS lookups the time is entirely
dominated by the network traffic.  There is nothing to change here.

Comment 2 Ulrich Drepper 2006-08-01 16:12:11 UTC
*** Bug 200869 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***