* Massimiliano Mirra (list / chromatic-harp.com) wrote: > ...Three puts and gets with one-time connections: 0.036726 secs > ....Three puts and gets with a persistent connection: 0.162311 secs > . > Finished in 0.204511 seconds. > 2 runs, 6 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors > > Four times as slow?! Someone please tell me that there is some > macroscopic mistake in the code below (or that this is a bad dream). ...Three puts and gets with one-time connections: 0.297782 secs ....Three puts and gets with a persistent connection: 0.596412 secs . Finished in 0.897749 seconds. 2 runs, 6 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors ruby svr.rb 0.15s user 0.02s system 16% cpu 1.017 total Looks like it's waiting most of the time. I'd suggest setting TCP_NOWAIT on the socket, otherwise it's probably hanging around at the end of each operation for something else to fill the packets with before sending. <tries to remember how to use setsockopt()> -- Thomas 'Freaky' Hurst - freaky / aagh.net - http://www.aagh.net/ - I am NOMAD!