On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 4:23 AM, Jean-Philippe Ouellet <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to learn about writing high performance servers, and I have a > few questions not clearly answered by any documentation I can find. I'm > comfortable with select(), poll(), and kqueue(), but that only goes so > far. I'm currently looking into how to send static files (over a > network) with the least amount of overhead. >
rest assured this is not the right avenue a few moons ago there was a discussion involving a converse client issue certain people did not understand why firefox opens so many sockets since select() and cousins are used in situations where concurrent socket io is desirable (if only because of inadequacies of http), you want to go to a place where they write high throughput servers. you won't find that in openbsd outside of non-tcp servers and contribs like nginx
