Hi Daniel,

        I'm hoping this one is easy to fix; here is an strace -ttt trace of me
calling xmlParseFile on a really quite small file :-) as you would
expect I would not imagine that we need the umpteen redundant read
syscalls all returning 0 :-)

        Any chance of a fix ? it gets worse with bigger files I have:

[pid  4424] 1014818823.507812 read(10, "", 4096) = 0
...
[pid  4424] 1014818823.524004 read(10, "", 4096) = 0
[pid  4424] 1014818823.524106 close(10) = 0

        Only 20ms I know, but over 62 servers = ~1 second of redundant sys
callage ;-)     I see the same phenomenon spiking both gconf,
bonobo-activation and nautilus performance to a degree.

        Is it possible that this happened in libxml1 - if so a backport would
be really wonderful :-)

        Thanks,

                Michael.

[pid  4424] 1014818823.447528
open("/opt/ngnome2/etc/bonobo-activation/bonobo-activation-config.xml",
O_RDONLY) = 3
[pid  4424] 1014818823.447681 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644,
st_size=77, ...}) = 0
[pid  4424] 1014818823.447805 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x400d3000
[pid  4424] 1014818823.447920 read(3, "<?xml
version=\"1.0\"?>\n\n<oafconfi"..., 16384) = 77
[pid  4424] 1014818823.494369 read(3, "", 12288) = 0
[pid  4424] 1014818823.496839 _llseek(3, 0, [77], SEEK_CUR) = 0
[pid  4424] 1014818823.497065 read(3, "", 4096) = 0
[pid  4424] 1014818823.497187 read(3, "", 4096) = 0
[pid  4424] 1014818823.497312 read(3, "", 4096) = 0
[pid  4424] 1014818823.497403 read(3, "", 4096) = 0
[pid  4424] 1014818823.497490 read(3, "", 4096) = 0
[pid  4424] 1014818823.497593 read(3, "", 4096) = 0
[pid  4424] 1014818823.497683 read(3, "", 4096) = 0
[pid  4424] 1014818823.497808 read(3, "", 4096) = 0
[pid  4424] 1014818823.497906 read(3, "", 4096) = 0
[pid  4424] 1014818823.498004 read(3, "", 4096) = 0
[pid  4424] 1014818823.498093 read(3, "", 4096) = 0
[pid  4424] 1014818823.498182 read(3, "", 4096) = 0
[pid  4424] 1014818823.498275 read(3, "", 4096) = 0
[pid  4424] 1014818823.498363 read(3, "", 4096) = 0
[pid  4424] 1014818823.498462 read(3, "", 4096) = 0
[pid  4424] 1014818823.498554 read(3, "", 4096) = 0
[pid  4424] 1014818823.498641 read(3, "", 4096) = 0
[pid  4424] 1014818823.498729 read(3, "", 4096) = 0
[pid  4424] 1014818823.498824 read(3, "", 4096) = 0
[pid  4424] 1014818823.498911 read(3, "", 4096) = 0
[pid  4424] 1014818823.499003 read(3, "", 4096) = 0
[pid  4424] 1014818823.499090 read(3, "", 4096) = 0
[pid  4424] 1014818823.499176 read(3, "", 4096) = 0
[pid  4424] 1014818823.499263 read(3, "", 4096) = 0
[pid  4424] 1014818823.499354 read(3, "", 4096) = 0
[pid  4424] 1014818823.499440 read(3, "", 4096) = 0
[pid  4424] 1014818823.499602 close(3)  = 0