I commented out every line that started with $rss in wp-admin/index.php and now I get:
(2.0.1 — 0.11 seconds) instead of (2.0.1 — 90.26 seconds)
Fresh install, no plugins, dashboard crawls.
To the tune of consistently 90.26 seconds to render the dashboard. (2.0.1 — 90.26 seconds) This is on an internal box that has no other activity. Top shows the processor 100% idle.
Debian Sarge
backport of php5
P4 3.0 GHz HT
2 gb RAM
Update:
Per: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/59307
I commented out every line that started with $rss in wp-admin/index.php and now I get:
(2.0.1 — 0.11 seconds) instead of (2.0.1 — 90.26 seconds)