From: Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Date: 2010-04-28T04:15:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Networking: select() blocks for seconds (> timeout)


> I also suspect GC is your issue here. You could try to reduce the
> latency cost of GC by forcing GC to happen every time thru the main
> loop.... This will reduce the tme it takes for any individual GC cycle
> by increasing the total amount of time spent in GC. You might also try
> reducing the amount of garbage (and for that matter non-garbage)
> objects which your program creates.

If you're looking to reduce jitter, you could use jruby which has a 
tunable GC.

http://wiki.github.com/rdp/ruby_tutorials_core/gc

GL.
-rp


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