Re: Linux's implementation of poll() not scalable?

From: Nick Piggin (s3293115@student.anu.edu.au)
Date: Mon Oct 23 2000 - 20:19:31 EST


> I'm trying to write a server that handles 10000 clients. On 2.4.x,
> the RT signal queue stuff looks like the way to achieve that.

I would suggest you try multiple polling threads. Not only will you get
better SMP scalability, if you have say 16 threads, each one only has to
handle ~ 600 fds.

Nick.

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