pipe performance problem

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 10:39:05PM +0100, thomas wrote:
>10 ms delay, and there's many of them. Exactly every 612 lines or every
>34816 bytes (34kb). Which is about 210 seconds delay on a 700MB file.

If there is no data in a pipe it can wait for 10ms waiting for it, yes.

See ready_for_read/peek_pipe in select.cc.

cgf
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