On Wed, 21 Nov 2012, Sagar Hagawne wrote:

(I restored to a sensible Subject)

> 1) The delay issue only occurs the first time that curl_easy_perform()
> is called.

...

> The problem seems to be some sort of initializing issue. We are using
> version of curl 7.27.0.

To figure out in detail what's happening, use strace and wireshark on the
client-side to start with to fully see what the time is spent on. That's a lot
better than just assuming or guessing.

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se
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