On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Peter G. Millard wrote:

>> Isn't it possible to use wpj [1] as c2s component?
> The wpj stuff uses /dev/epoll which would require a new kernel on the
> existing box. The current kernel took _WEEKS_ to get going because of all of
> the special high-end hardware. I'm not sure I'm willing to take down the
> entire box for a new kernel that may or may not work, etc...

epoll is the way to go for high performance anyways [1]. It's well-tested
and integrated in the 2.6.x kernels. Patching the kernel and "make
oldconfig" should suffice even for a 2.4.x kernel.

Regards

[1] Just take a look at
http://www.xmailserver.org/linux-patches/nio-improve.html
or
http://www.xmailserver.org/linux-patches/test512.png
- epoll especially handles low-traffic connections *by far* better than
poll, and low-traffic connections is what we have with Jabber.
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