<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px;color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0);margin:0px;line-height:auto"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px">Hi,</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px">I'm currently working on a Python audisp plugin. My main routine looks like this:</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px">if __name__ == '__main__':</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px"> try:</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>...</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px"> aup = auparse.AuParser(auparse.AUSOURCE_FEED)</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px"> aup.add_callback(process_event, None)</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px"> while True:</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px"> for _ in fileinput.input():</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px"> aup.feed(_)</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px"> except:</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>...</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px">While profiling my plugin, I noticed that 95% + of the CPU time used by my plugin is used in fileinput.input(), waiting/reading from input</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px">Is there any way to lower this or preferred way to poll/read?</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin:0px">Thanks</div></div><br><div id="bloop_sign_1538745018126856960" class="bloop_sign"><div style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:13px">-- <br>Osama Elnaggar<br></div></div></body></html>