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Diffstat (limited to 'ev.pod')
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -598,12 +598,14 @@ overhead for the actual polling but can deliver many events at once. By setting a higher I<io collect interval> you allow libev to spend more time collecting I/O events, so you can handle more events per iteration, at the cost of increasing latency. Timeouts (both C<ev_periodic> and -C<ev_timer>) will be not affected. +C<ev_timer>) will be not affected. Setting this to a non-null bvalue will +introduce an additional C<ev_sleep ()> call into most loop iterations. Likewise, by setting a higher I<timeout collect interval> you allow libev to spend more time collecting timeouts, at the expense of increased latency (the watcher callback will be called later). C<ev_io> watchers -will not be affected. +will not be affected. Setting this to a non-null value will not introduce +any overhead in libev. Many (busy) programs can usually benefit by setting the io collect interval to a value near C<0.1> or so, which is often enough for |