From: Niklas Frykholm Date: 2005-05-25T16:41:02+09:00 Subject: Re: UDPSocket#recvfrom is slow >> The #recvfrom call in this code: >> >> socket = UDPSocket.new >> socket.bind(0, 12345) >> loop {puts socket.recvfrom(1000)[0]} >> >> Runs extremely slow on my ruby > You can try Socket.do_not_reverse_lookup = true That did the trick. Thanks a lot. // Niklas