Hi Cezary, On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 11:15 PM, Cezary Rzewuski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > I'd like to ask if sending http requests with libevent is carried out in > separate thread or is the library > single-threaded? I want to use the library in a program which will visit > many URL and download > it's content. Is it good idea to use libevent or the classic solution with > creating a separate thread per URL > request will be much more efficient solution? > > I saw that libevent was used in spybye, which is kind of similar what I > want to do. I was wondering > if spybye were more efficient with requests served in separate threads > instead of using libevent > (I don't say that it's not efficient, just theoretically). > > Kind regards, > Cezary > _______________________________________________ > Libevent-users mailing list > Libevent-users@monkey.org > http://monkeymail.org/mailman/listinfo/libevent-users > If you are doing a heavy load server on a HW with multiple cores and/or multiple CPUs, you indeed have a business case for threading. Y may wish to look at ACE-library implementation of Leader-Followers design pattern. There are also great folks on the list, that implemented the pattern using libevent; look in the mailing archives. -- Sincerely, Robert Iakobashvili "Light will come from Jerusalem" ........................................................... http://curl-loader.sourceforge.net An open-source web testing and traffic generation.
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