Getting timeout even though there is data available

[Eric Brown]

I'm having a troubling problem. And I'm trying to decide whether I'm chasing
a ghost or a real problem.
I'm running libev 3.49 on OS X Leopard 10.5.7. I use libev in both my server
and client. The server reads 1-2 k bytes and returns ~100 bytes within 2-3
ms. The client which connected, set async i/o, sent the bytes, etc., uses
libev with an io-watcher for EV_READ on its socket and a timeout-callback.
The io-watcher actually has a higher priority. 99% of the time everything
works just fine.

In failure, the server sends its response 2-3ms later (according to its
logs) but the client does not see it in 50ms and my timeout-callback is
triggered. I've gone as far as setting libev's flags to use poll and
modifying libev to dump out what it is calling POLL on -- verifying that it
is basically calling poll(1, (<myfd>, 0x1, ...), 50ms). (The problem happens
with select() too, but its parameters are a bit more difficult to log.) My
sense is that I'm seeing some issue in OS X's loopback driver, but this is a
very important piece of code and if anybody has some suggestions one way or
the other, I'd be very appreciative.

Cheers,
Eric
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