[html-formfu] very, very slow initially

[Josef Chladek]

hello list,

I move my catalyst-app from my notebook to our servers, and there are  
two major problems (it's an apache-server with catalyst as fast-cgi):
the app uses DBIx::Class::HTML::FormFu and my controller uses  
Catalyst::Controller::HTML::FormFu as base.

1) the first request takes VERY long:

  .------------------------------------------+-----------.
| Action                                    | Time      |
+-------------------------------------------+-----------+
| /auth/begin                               | 0.006714s |
| /auth/login                               | 9.198848s |
|  -> /auth/show                            | 9.166110s |
| /auth/end                                 | 3.985461s |
|  -> Cat::View::TT->process                | 3.983828s |
'-------------------------------------------+-----------'

after that request everything is running fast

.-------------------------------------------+-----------.
| Action                                    | Time      |
+-------------------------------------------+-----------+
| /auth/begin                               | 0.004783s |
| /auth/login                               | 0.049029s |
|  -> /auth/show                            | 0.040471s |
| /auth/end                                 | 0.117099s |
|  -> Cat::View::TT->process                | 0.115839s |
'-------------------------------------------+-----------'

and I reduced /auth/show to just this

my $row = $c->model('Frontwave::UserDepot')->find($c->user->obj->id);
$row->fill_formfu_values( $c->stash->{form} );

and view has just [% form %] in it.

nothing more done.

this happens for every fast-cgi child (there are 5), but I can see it  
also when I start the app with the dev-server script/myapp_server -r - 
d on the server

2) encoding is broken and I have garbled umlauts again (with and  
without the Catalyst::Plugin::Unicode) - I even tried the Test-app (I  
sent yesterday to the list), and the Umlauts don't show up correctly  
when [% form%] is in the template...
if I comment
     local $YAML::Syck::ImplicitUnicode = 1;
in HTML/FormFu/ObjectUtil.pm umlauts are shown correctly

FormFu is from svn, using latest Catalyst, DBIx::Class (0.07000)

any hints/clues what's going on here?

thanks
josef