sleep of non-blocking calls

Question

I am looking for an optimum sleep value to receive data from a non-blocking socket. Eg:

while True:
    data=s.recv(1024)
    if not data:
        time.sleep(10) #10ms
    else:
        pass #...

No sleep would lead into 100% CPU usage, so any idea how to get the best CPU Usage and bandwith? How long has a sleep to be so the CPU can do a thread switch?

Btw, does it make sense to set the buffer of the socket via SO_SNDBUF/SO_RECVBUF and set TCP_NODELAY or shouldn't they be combined?

Answer 1

如果您打算使用sleep() ，为什么不使用阻塞套接字呢？

Answer 2

You shouldn't be doing that yourself. Use the select call, with a timeout if you need your code to wake up every so often even if no data was received.

BTW, TCP_NODELAY is of the sending side, won't influence your read s.

Answer 3

Use select . It will basically pause the program and wake it up when there is data available on the socket.