[Catalyst] DBIx makes Catalyst startup painfully slow

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Hello people,

I'm working on a rather big CRM system using Catalyst with all bells and 
whistles. For database, we use DBIx::Class::Schema and this drives me 
crazy...

Apart from Catalyst being really resource hungry, the startup time for 
the application (testserver oder fastcgi) is ok, about 4 seconds on my 
development-system (CentOS on VMware Fusion on MacOS X Leopard, Core 2 
Duo 2.2GHz). It's not perfect for developing, but it is completely 
acceptable.
But as soon as I activate my DBIx schemas, the startup time multiplies: 
12 seconds with my first (and most important) schema, 25 seconds when 
using all schemas. This doesn't sound so long, but over a working day of 
development it becomes _really_ annoying, as often we have to restart 
the testserver many times to test small changes and fixes (as even our 
10-years-experience-i-love-perl-so-much-gurus in company need 
trial&error to solve trivial problems of Perls strangeness). Remember 
this is on a completely idle machine with a fairly fast CPU (I'm using 
my private MacBook Pro), on some other development systems here is takes 
up to 1.5 minutes, so the devs are waiting up to two hours a day just 
for server startup.

Is this normal? Is there _any_ way to speed things up? Does anyone know, 
what DBIx even does the whole time
 (probing the database or something)?

Any help would be appreciated!


Thanks and regards,
Thomas Weber

(PS: sorry for sounding so nerved, doing fast changes while incredible 
impatient customers are waiting at the phone are just like hell)
(PPS: sorry for my half-baked english, used to write german)