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Re: >1024 connections in slapd / select->poll





On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Howard Chu wrote:

Volker.Lendecke@SerNet.DE wrote:

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.


Well if you're feeling brave, I've just completed a patch in CVS HEAD supporting epoll. I haven't tried testing it with a massive number of connections yet, but the code now passes the regular test suite. It should be simple enough to add kqueue support as well now (I would have begun that but I don't have BSD installed anywhere at the moment). Regular poll can easily be added if you want, but there's really no reason to. Solaris /dev/poll is a bit more awkward.


Is using libevent not an option?

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Igor