From: Caleb Tennis Date: 2006-01-31T21:10:55+09:00 Subject: Re: TCP/UDP server weird lags on 1.8.4 linux > > Apparently that's a 5 second (5000 msec) delay? How can I find where > that's coming from? Bill, I had this problem with one of my applications too. Turns out it was trying to do name resolution, but the remote computer didn't have any DNS info anywhere. I think if you throw in a TCPSocket.do_not_reverse_lookup = true, that should fix the delay. Caleb