On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Springande Ulv<springande...@gmail.com> wrote: > Without having looked at your code I would guess the following. By > using the http part of libevent you do a lot of allocation and data > copying into buffers as well as function callbacks. While ab does no > such thing and write and read directly on the sockets. Also note that > there are minimal differences from select and other event mechanisms > for the small socket sets so there is not much to gain from using > epoll or kqueue in this case.
You might want to try the benchmark tool with libevent-2.0.1-alpha or directly from trunk. There has been a lot of work to reduce data copies. Niels. _______________________________________________ Libevent-users mailing list Libevent-users@monkey.org http://monkeymail.org/mailman/listinfo/libevent-users
