From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2009-06-30T06:13:13+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:24086] Re: [Bug #1696] http downloads are unuseably slow

On Jun 29, 2009, at 1:17 PM, Tanaka Akira wrote:

> In article <4a464441bf3f7_13bd3907d016634@redmine.ruby-lang.org>,
>  Steven Hartland <redmine@ruby-lang.org> writes:
>
>> This I've tracked down to the net/protocol module and the  
>> Net::BufferIO::rbuf_fill method which is using a timeout block to  
>> wrap the @io.sysread(1024) call. This is clearly an extremely bad  
>> way to do this, totally crippling the performance.
>
> There is a reson to use timeout().  It is used to fix
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=265429
>
> Before the fix, IO.select was used in rbuf_fill.

And Timeout does get to interrupt that?

James Edward Gray II