warcvalidator seems slow

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. WARC Tools r245 warcvalidator.c: r211 | voidptrptr | 2008-11-07 
2. time warcvalidator -f 100MB.warc.gz

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

expected time comparable to zcat (around 30sec, but took over 15min instead.  

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from warc-tools list post [Sep 14 2009, 8:46 am]:

hi WARC Tools,

warcvalidator seems to take an inordinate amount of time
to validate our warc files, which ultimately do turn out
to be valid.

  WARC Tools r245
  warcvalidator.c: r211 | voidptrptr | 2008-11-07

on an unloaded crawler with dual 2.6GHz cpus and 4GB memory,
it took about 5 hours to process a 1GB WARC (the new standard
size) and 15 minutes to validate a 100MB WARC. gzip takes about
20 seconds to unpack a 1GB WARC.

  OS: Ubuntu 5.10 "Breezy Badger"
  kernel: Linux 2.6.16.1 #1 SMP May11 2006 x86_64 GNU/Linux
  cpu: 2 x AMD 64GB 2605.873MHz
  mem: 4015252k total

during processing, the cpus were mostly idle, about 90% of
memory was in use, and disk activity was low. in top, with a
sample delay of 0.1 seconds, i could see that warcvalidator
appears briefly and then goes away for a few seconds, then
appears briefly again.

  time zcat WARC_1GB > /dev/null
  real 0m20.781s
  user 0m19.620s
  sys  0m1.150s

  time warcvalidator -f WARC_100MB
  real  15m10.865s
  user  0m8.510s
  sys   0m8.770s

  time warcvalidator -f WARC_1GB
  real    298m58.218s (4.97 hrs)
  user    1m21.760s
  sys     1m35.540s

any idea what warcvalidator is doing?

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Original issue reported on code.google.com by st...@archive.org on 1 Apr 2010 at 9:53
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warcvalidator seems slow #103
