Description of problem: libevent decides to wake up every 5 seconds, for no apparent reason whatsoever. The patch below makes this default poll timeout more pallable to 60 seconds, but even longer would be better.
Created attachment 135414 [details] patch to increase the delay
I just sent some mail to the libevent-users mailing list to see why this value can not be set to -1 which would make the epoll wait forever or even make the time out configurable...
ping?
Fixed in libevent-1.3b-1.fc7
The purpose of the delay is to handle (as best as possible) cases where the clock goes backwards. But with CLOCK_MONOTONIC, this is unnecessary. I just sent a couple patches to the upstream list which make the delay infinite on Linux. Hopefully they'll make it into libevent-1.3c. http://monkeymail.org/archives/libevent-users/2007-July/000700.html
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