i doubt gprof will be helpful here. if it was, you'd be better of just profiling perl's startup time with the perl binary outside of httpd. also you didn't mention which verison of perl you're using. assuming bleed, you might want to benchmark its startup time vs. 5.6.1, slowdown could be something new. what is the difference in startup time between t/TEST -d and t/TEST -start ? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@perl.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@perl.apache.org