From: Florian Frank <flori@...>
Date: 2006-07-17T17:39:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Net::HTTP Performance....

Ola Bini wrote:

> Yes, and yes. The fix is basically to go into your 
> $RUBY_HOME/lib/ruby/1.8/net/protocol.rb, find the method called 
> rbuf_fill and change the sysread to something bigger than 1024. 
> Probably 8192 or 16384 would be good enough for your purposes.

Ruby being Ruby, you can also just reopen the class and redefine the 
method in question to your liking:

class ::Net::BufferedIO
  def rbuf_fill
    timeout(@read_timeout) {
      @rbuf << @io.sysread(8192)
    }
  end
end

But it's probably not a good idea to release code like this in a library 
to the public.