Re: Re: beta5 ...

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, vadim4o(at)email(dot)com
Subject: Re: Re: beta5 ...
Date: 2001-02-17 17:30:02
Message-ID: 4145.982431002@sss.pgh.pa.us
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The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> writes:
>> The easy fix is to just set the delay to zero. Looks like that will fix
>> most of the problem.

> Except that Vadim had a reason for setting it to 5,

He claimed to have seen better performance with a nonzero delay.
So far none of the rest of us have been able to duplicate that.
Perhaps he was using a machine where a 5-microsecond select() delay
actually is 5 microseconds? If so, he's the outlier, not the
rest of us ...

regards, tom lane

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