Hi, Thanks Matt. Really appreciate your help :) On 3 sep, 18:29, Matt Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sep 3, 12:00 pm, jhaagmans <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks Fred :) > > > > Just seems highly likely that any time you save will actually be lost > > > in the noise. > > > If it does, it does. However, on average, an e-mail sent 1 millisecond > > faster will also be received 1 ms faster. I know you think it doesn't > > matter, but for this application, it matters. Trust me on this. Even > > server load isn't as important as speed. > > I have to agree with Fred - trying to optimize things to this level is > almost certainly a mistake. There are far too many other factors that > can randomly devour >10ms at a pass: the size of the OS timeslice > (typically around 10ms), swapping pages in from disk (50ms to ?), > network contention, etc.
That doesn't take away my first point. On average, every millisecond that I can shave off, will result in the e-mail getting there faster. And again, trust me, every millisecond counts. I don't want to debate on the need of shaving these milliseconds off; it's the task I got. My question is where to start shaving. > > On the other hand, if you're really serious about being fast, SMTP is > doing it completely wrong. Write a real TCP client and you'll clear > out a massive amount of overhead. Great, that's useful. I'll look into that. > > Unless this is for one of the high-frequency stock trading operations, > in which case I encourage you to spend as much time and money on it as > possible - tell them they need a custom OS or something... ;) You're actually on the right track, but also way off ;) The thing is, I -will- start work on this at some point and I -will- need to make sure it's my best effort. The budget also has some weight of course, which is why I can't get too fancy, developing a custom OS for example ;) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
