Comment 12 for bug 593560

I wanted to try out perf to see whether it gives any insight on what's going on:
% sudo perf top
             samples pcnt function DSO
             _______ _____ __________________________ ____________

             1048.00 21.0% PyEval_EvalFrameEx python2.6
              373.00 7.5% RotatingTree_Get _lsprof.so
              365.00 7.3% memcpy libc-2.12.so
              305.00 6.1% read_hpet [kernel]
              187.00 3.8% PyObject_Hash python2.6
              175.00 3.5% PyObject_Malloc python2.6
              127.00 2.5% PyObject_GenericGetAttr python2.6
              125.00 2.5% _PyString_Eq python2.6
              118.00 2.4% _int_malloc libc-2.12.so
              106.00 2.1% PyTuple_New python2.6
               95.00 1.9% PyString_FromStringAndSize python2.6
               89.00 1.8% PyObject_Free python2.6
               77.00 1.5% __memchr libc-2.12.so

(obviously not the level you care about, but still interesting to see what kind of functions it's hitting in python)