[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #8590: Very slow after upgrade to 2.7 seemingly related to http.php transport

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#8590: Very slow after upgrade to 2.7 seemingly related to http.php transport
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 Reporter:  tin68         |        Owner:          
     Type:  defect (bug)  |       Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal        |    Milestone:  2.7.2   
Component:  HTTP          |      Version:  2.7     
 Severity:  normal        |   Resolution:          
 Keywords:                |  
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Comment(by eagano):

 I had this same problem on Debian. While curl was installed on the system,
 the PHP cURL module was not.

 Debian:
 apt-get install php5-curl
 /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

 This solved my performance problems. Without the PHP cURL libraries it
 must have been falling back on something much slower, likely fsock.

 From my phpinfo() after the PHP cURL install:
 curl
 cURL support    enabled
 cURL Information        libcurl/7.15.5 OpenSSL/0.9.8c zlib/1.2.3
 libidn/0.6.5

 I am guessing that there is a similar RPM for RedHat based distros (

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