From: Eero Saynatkari <ruby-ml@...>
Date: 2009-06-28T18:29:43+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:24066] Re: [Bug #1696] http downloads are unuseably slow

Excerpts from rogerdpack's message of Sun Jun 28 02:29:12 +0300 2009:
> > Net/HTTP in 1.9.2dev is already working as you described with two
> > exceptions:
> > 1 - It uses nonblocking I/O
> > 2 - It uses a 16KB buffer
> 
> does 1.9.2dev work as quickly then?

Whether it does or not, at least decreasing the buffer size
is absolutely necessary. The performance of a HTTP download
cannot be tuned based on a local, large file.


Eero
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