urllib slow on FreeBSD 4.7? sockets too

[Mike Brown]

"Jarkko Torppa" <torppa at staff.megabaud.fi> wrote:
> Seems that stdio is somehow confused, try this
>
> import urllib, time, os
>
> starttime = time.time()
> u = urllib.urlopen('http://localhost/4m')
> fn = u.fp.fileno()
> bytea = [ ]
> while 1:
>     bytes = os.read(fn, 16 * 1024)
>     if bytes == '':
>         break
>     bytea.append(bytes)
> bytes = ''.join(bytea)
> u.close()

[...]

Well, look at that...

bytes: 4241.5K; time: 0.322s (13171 KB/s)

That's much better. At least, it now seems to be hitting the socket speed
cap.

Thanks!