From: Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Date: 2010-04-28T01:58:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Networking: select() blocks for seconds (> timeout)

> All is perfect for several thousands of messages, until this: we receive
> data (in the "else" branch) 5 seconds later; so, the select remained
> blocked for 5 seconds without signaling the 50 msec timeout.

Maybe it is doing DNS lookup.  You could try
BasicSocket.do_not_reverse_lookup=true

-rp
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