phoronix-test-suite/phoronix-test-suite — pull request #3 by NickZ (2014-02-10 07:52:15+00:00)
Title: Setting socket_select to 'null' instead of '0' boosts performance tremendously.

...diately. This makes the while loop spin continuously and it chews up CPU like a mother.

Setting it to NULL makes it block indefinitely. As a result, it no longer chews up 100% of CPU.