Regression in speed of key listing

David Shaw dshaw@jabberwocky.com
Sat Jun 7 17:35:02 2003


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On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 04:53:17PM +0200, Ingo Kl=F6cker wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> KMail reads the list of public key with the following command line
> LANGUAGE=3DC gpg --batch --list-public-keys --with-fingerprint \=20
> --with-colons --fixed-list-mode --no-expensive-trust-checks
>=20
> With GnuPG 1.2.1 this is pretty quick:
> > time gnupg-1.2.1/g10/gpg --batch --list-public-keys \=20
> --with-fingerprint  --with-colons --fixed-list-mode \=20
> --no-expensive-trust-checks >/dev/null
>=20
> real    0m0.638s
> user    0m0.570s
> sys     0m0.020s
>=20
> And with GnuPG 1.2.2 it's horribly slow:
> > time gnupg-1.2.2/g10/gpg --batch --list-public-keys \=20
> --with-fingerprint --with-colons --fixed-list-mode \=20
> --no-expensive-trust-checks >/dev/null
>=20
> real    0m15.929s
> user    0m13.230s
> sys     0m2.070s
>=20
> What's the reason for this slowdown? Which option has to be added to=20
> speed it up?

This is a known bug.  It is fixed in 1.2.3.

David

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