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> How? Using no delay at all between attempts would be
> rather devastating, since spinlocks eat CPU like mad.



Stop thinking small. When you have many thousands of checks
to run, tiny delays persist and add up. A second here, a
second there, and pretty soon you're talking real time.



> There's no real design issue.



The design issue is that delays build up and become very
observable.


I've removed the sleep in my version of nagios and throughput difference is=
DRAMATIC.
That said other things are having a hard time running on the same machine.
I'm going to sprinkle some yields where the sleeps are at and see if that h=
elps, I'll keep you apprised.

Sincerely,
Steve


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