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From: "Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri" <almarrie@gmail.com>
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Subject: Why not remove polling(4) from 7.0?
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Hello Guys,

Almost all cases polling(4) adds additional latency.
There are some cases that polling(4) helps a little but most cases it wouldn't.

So why not remove it or switch to adaptive polling as em(4) instead of
resorting to polling?

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-Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
Arab Portal
http://www.WeArab.Net/