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So a trickling stream of data coming in could mean the timeout never getting triggered, or getting triggered way later than timeout.

Remember that tcp/ip coalesces small writes into larger packets before transmission. So the slower the trickle, the longer the time between packets.

In my simplistic testing, a 250 millisecond timeout never took longer than 315 milliseconds to actually return. If 315 is too long for you, try scaling back the value you set to say 200.

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