#50410 [NEW]: curl extension slows down PHP

From: procyonar at gmail dot com Operating system: Windows 7 PHP version: 5.2.11 PHP Bug Type: cURL related Bug description: curl extension slows down PHP Description: ------------ This is possibly the same problem as described in http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=50406 . PHP 5.2.11, vanilla distribution from php.net, without any relevant php.ini changes, slows dows to a crawl on Windows 7 Ultimate whenever php_curl.dll extension is enabled. It happens both in cli and in apache2 versions. Just running "php -v" (version output) takes about 5-6 seconds when curl is enabled (and a CPU usage spike). With curl disabled, it is near instantaneous, as expected. I haven't tested whether curl actually works. A similar delay occurs on .php page load, etc. WRT bug 50406, I believe curl initialization code, however complicated it might be, is not supposed to take 5 seconds all by itself. I verified that in PHP 5.3.0 on Windows XP and PHP 5.2.11 on Gentoo Linux, just to be certain, and in both cases there was no delay. Reproduce code: --------------- php -v Expected result: ---------------- <1 s execution time Actual result: -------------- 5-6 s execution time. A similar delay occurs whenever ANY PHP script, cli or apache2, is ran. -- Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=50410&edit=1 -- Try a snapshot (PHP 5.2): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50410&r=trysnapshot52 Try a snapshot (PHP 5.3): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50410&r=trysnapshot53 Try a snapshot (PHP 6.0): http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50410&r=trysnapshot60 Fixed in SVN: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50410&r=fixed Fixed in SVN and need be documented: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50410&r=needdocs Fixed in release: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50410&r=alreadyfixed Need backtrace: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50410&r=needtrace Need Reproduce Script: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50410&r=needscript Try newer version: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50410&r=oldversion Not developer issue: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50410&r=support Expected behavior: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50410&r=notwrong Not enough info: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50410&r=notenoughinfo Submitted twice: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50410&r=submittedtwice register_globals: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50410&r=globals PHP 4 support discontinued: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50410&r=php4 Daylight Savings: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50410&r=dst IIS Stability: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50410&r=isapi Install GNU Sed: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50410&r=gnused Floating point limitations: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50410&r=float No Zend Extensions: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50410&r=nozend MySQL Configuration Error: http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=50410&r=mysqlcfg