Slow zone connection to world

[Dominatus]

Ok, I ran strace and got some output. It appears it is getting in a loop getting UNIX time. Here is the important snippit (I think) from the strace:

brk(0) = 0x81e7000
brk(0x81e9000) = 0x81e9000
read(5, "\1\0\0\360", 4) = 4
read(5, "\376", 1) = 1
time([1064484656]) = 1064484656
getpid() = 8317
write(1, "[Status] Loading items\n", 23) = 23
write(6, "8317 [09.25. - 05:10:56] Loading"..., 39) = 39
open("/home/stailey/eqemu/libEMuShareMem.so", O_RDONLY) = 7
read(7, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0`( \0\000"..., 1024) = 1024
fstat64(7, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=187886, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 42740, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 7, 0) = 0x40015000
mprotect(0x4001f000, 1780, PROT_NONE) = 0
mmap2(0x4001f000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 7, 0x9) = 0x4001f000
close(7) = 0
time([1064484656]) = 1064484656
getpid() = 8317
write(1, "[Status] libEMuShareMem.so loade"..., 34) = 34
write(6, "8317 [09.25. - 05:10:56] libEMuS"..., 50) = 50
fcntl64(5, F_SETFL, O_RDWR|O_NONBLOCK) = 0
read(5, 0x81dd5b8, 8192) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
fcntl64(5, F_SETFL, O_RDWR) = 0
write(5, "#\0\0\0\3SELECT MAX(id),count(*) FRO"..., 39) = 39
read(5, "\1\0\0\1", 4) = 4
read(5, "\2", 1) = 1
read(5, "\23\0\0\2", 4) = 4
read(5, "\0\7MAX(id)\3\v\0\0\1\3\3\3@\0", 19) = 19
read(5, "\24\0\0\3", 4) = 4
read(5, "\0\10count(*)\3\25\0\0\1\3\3\1\0\0", 20) = 20
read(5, "\1\0\0\4", 4) = 4
read(5, "\376", 1) = 1
read(5, "\f\0\0\5", 4) = 4
read(5, "\00567382\00523980", 12) = 12
read(5, "\1\0\0\6", 4) = 4
read(5, "\376", 1) = 1
stat64(".", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=512, ...}) = 0
semget(1224941855, 1, 0666) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
semget(1224941855, 1, IPC_CREAT|0666) = 2162690
semctl(2162690, 0, IPC_64|SETVAL, 0xbffff60c) = 0
shmget(1224941855, 11227200, IPC_CREAT|IPC_EXCL|IPC_NOWAIT|0x180|0600) = -1 EEXIST (File exists)
shmget(1224941855, 11227200, IPC_NOWAIT|0x100|0400) = 32768
shmctl(32768, IPC_64|IPC_STAT, 0xbffff660) = 0
shmat(32768, 0, SHM_RDONLY) = 0x40c2d000
semctl(2162690, 0, IPC_64|IPC_RMID, 0xbffff60c) = 0
gettimeofday({1064484656, 619351}, NULL) = 0
nanosleep({0, 10000000}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1064484656, 629454}, NULL) = 0
nanosleep({0, 10000000}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1064484656, 644467}, NULL) = 0
nanosleep({0, 10000000}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1064484656, 659452}, NULL) = 0
nanosleep({0, 10000000}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1064484656, 674466}, NULL) = 0
nanosleep({0, 10000000}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1064484656, 689454}, NULL) = 0
nanosleep({0, 10000000}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1064484656, 704466}, NULL) = 0
nanosleep({0, 10000000}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1064484656, 719452}, NULL) = 0
nanosleep({0, 10000000}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1064484656, 734466}, NULL) = 0
nanosleep({0, 10000000}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1064484656, 749451}, NULL) = 0
nanosleep({0, 10000000}, NULL) = 0
gettimeofday({1064484656, 764466}, NULL) = 0


It does the gettimeofday loop forever. I'm not a programmer so I have no idea where to look from here, just curious if this is something in my environment or a global Linux server issue.

thanks!