Re: Bug #13400: ftp functions are sometimes REALLY slow

could it be that once in a while proftpd tries to resolve the ip of the connecting machine? and if it fails, it keeps this fail in a cache, for a while.. until it wants to try again? when my ftp'ing has been slow it's been because of resolving.. / d <woprog@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:bug-13400@bugs.php.net... > From: woprog@hotmail.com > Operating system: Red Hat Linux 7.1 > PHP version: 4.0.6 > PHP Bug Type: Performance problem > Bug description: ftp functions are sometimes REALLY slow > > I lately installed ProFTPD. This is on of the fastest FTP daemons I know. > I've made a site which heavily uses FTP connections to a computer in the > same subnet (100Mbit connection between the two). It's really strange. > Sometimes the ftp functions (especially ftp_nlist and ftp_rawlist) work > fine, sometimes it takes like 5 minutes before the call to the function > ends with an empty array as a result... this is really annoying. I've > searched user submitted notes about this problem, but couldn't find > anything. I don't know if this is a known issue, or maybe it's just a > configuration problem on one of the two involved Linux PC's. What I do know > is when I restart httpd, the slowdown is always over immediately. I DO > close every ftp connection I make! > > > Please help... > -- > Edit bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=13400&edit=1 >