Comments on: How to make a program choose an optimal polling interval http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2006/05/04/how-to-make-a-program-choose-an-optimal-polling-interval/ Stay curious! Fri, 10 May 2013 18:25:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: How fast is MySQL replication? at Xaprb http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2006/05/04/how-to-make-a-program-choose-an-optimal-polling-interval/#comment-13564 How fast is MySQL replication? at Xaprb Wed, 24 Oct 2007 02:00:58 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=140#comment-13564 [...] can only get you so far; the extra overhead caused by polling skews the measurements (even if you poll smartly). I wanted to see if I could do this without polling the slave for results. It turned out to be [...]

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By: sam http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2006/05/04/how-to-make-a-program-choose-an-optimal-polling-interval/#comment-13391 sam Wed, 12 Sep 2007 03:35:09 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=140#comment-13391 I agree. I think Fibonacci analysis would be optimal.

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By: How to notify event listeners in MySQL at Xaprb http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2006/05/04/how-to-make-a-program-choose-an-optimal-polling-interval/#comment-13346 How to notify event listeners in MySQL at Xaprb Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:46:24 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=140#comment-13346 [...] do need to poll, there are still some steps you can take to make it more efficient. I wrote about efficient polling with exponential or Fibonacci wait a while ago. This technique has worked well for me in many [...]

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By: Xaprb http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2006/05/04/how-to-make-a-program-choose-an-optimal-polling-interval/#comment-747 Xaprb Mon, 22 May 2006 18:46:58 +0000 http://www.xaprb.com/blog/?p=140#comment-747 Something else that just occurred to me: the Fibonacci series is another possibility for changing the polling interval. It may in fact be the most natural series to use for many applications.

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