iwgetmount.exe takes up to 40 seconds to return anything

System

TS 6.5SP2, Win2003

I have a script from which I'm calling TeamSite::Config::iwgetmount(). The script is otherwise optimized, etc. so when I found that it took almost a minute to run, I started isolating the problem to which line was causing the issue.

It seems that iwgetmount() was doing it. Within the Config module, I've isolated the problematic line to where it runs a system call to iwgetmount.exe. Sure enough, when I run this on the command line, it takes anywhere from 18 to 40 seconds for this command to return anything.

Why?!

Is there something internal to this command that looks for something that my implementation does not have set up properly, perhaps? Why would this command take so long to run? I noticed this weeks ago, when I started working with this script, and now that I'm finishing it, I'm trying to clean up any spots.

Dave