gpg 1.06 extremly slow

[Peter Keel]

Hello. 

As soon as I invoke gpg --edit, its unbelievable slow. It uses 100% 
CPU for several minutes until it turns oup the prompt. Nearly every
action taken after that also takes this long. Happens on different 
machines. pubkey contains 174 keys.

malaclypse:~$ uname -a 
Linux malaclypse 2.4.10 #1 SMP Thu Oct 4 11:13:16 CEST 2001 i686 unknown

eris:~$ uname -a
Linux eris 2.4.13-grsec-1.8.5 #7 Mon Nov 5 19:16:01 CET 2001 i586 unknown

malaclypse:~$ gpg --version 
gpg (GnuPG) 1.0.6
Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions. See the file COPYING for details.

Home: ~/.gnupg
Supported algorithms:
Cipher: IDEA, 3DES, CAST5, BLOWFISH, RIJNDAEL, RIJNDAEL192, RIJNDAEL256, TWOFISH
Pubkey: RSA, RSA-E, RSA-S, ELG-E, DSA, ELG
Hash: MD5, SHA1, RIPEMD160

Here's what time says, time from starting to prompt and quit.
real    8m7.520s
user    1m16.360s
sys     6m30.180s

I mean that IS real slow. 

strace turns up thousands of these:
_llseek(6, 50520, [50520], SEEK_SET)    = 0                                     
read(6, "\4\0\0\0\0\201\0\0\4\362\0\0\0\0\0\0\4\361\3\0a\177L\373"..., 40) = 40 
Some 1536020 times.. 


Answers please by pm, since I don't read the mailinglist. 


Thank you
Peter 
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