The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.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