On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 02:47:34PM -0800, Howard Chu wrote: > lists around. But on a heavily loaded server with thousands of active > sessions, the fact is that your list of interesting descriptors is not > static. Ultimately the server must iterate across all the thousands of > descriptors, because the majority of them are probably active, and the > server must insert and delete descriptors from the list continuously, > because client sessions tend to come and go continually. All true, but the argument I think is that epoll has no inherent limits, and is optimal for many idle connections. With thousands of active connections I think a central select/poll/epoll/whatever is broken anyway. Only a SMP machine with a descriptor-passing architecture might help here. Volker
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