Re: > 15,000 Simultaneous Connections

Jason Nordwick (nordwick@erdos.askjeeves.com)
Mon, 06 Sep 1999 11:22:00 -0700


> The current select/poll implementation can be improved significantly,
>especially in the blocking case, but the overhead will still increase
>with the number of descriptors because select/poll does not, and
>cannot, remember what descriptors are interesting. This would be
>easy to fix with a new API. Suggestions are welcome - particularly
>from people who might actually be interested in using it in earnest.
>
> Mike

Can you elaborate as to why it is not possible to remember interesting
descriptors in the blocking case?

-jason

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