On Fri, 14 Jun 2002 Daniel Stenberg wrote :
>On 14 Jun 2002, yarram sunil wrote:
>
> > I am using curl-7.9.7 on windows. I was testing the
>throughput of curl
> > by repeatedly fetching a particular page from local LAN. I
>have used
> > Rational Quantify tool and found out that significant part of
>time is spent
> > in "SocketIsDead" function defined in file "url.c". In this
>function
> > "select" is used with a timeout value of 1 micro second.
>
>I find it mildly amusing that waiting 1 *microsecond* turns out
>to be a
>"significant part"... Can't but to smile at that! ;-)
>

   In my opinion it might be that kernel was unable to schedule
back the thread that went to wait state for 1 microsecond. I
couldn't see any good reason other than this.

Cheers,
Sunil.
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