* Edwin Eyan Moragas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-04-19 07:34]: > been reading the select(2) man pages and it mentions poll(2) > being more efficient in most cases. this makes it obvious to > discard the use of select(2) in writing new servers.
yes. poll is the way better API, easier to use, easier kernel-side, avoids a lot of problems (common!) improper use of select() brings, ... > i've come across some performance benchmarks which is trying > to use kqueue(2). using kqueue directly is painful. I'd recommend libevent if you really want to go that route. That said, kqueue really only pays out when you have _lots_ of concurrent connections, say, >10000. > the question is, which one is more useful when writing new servers? > kqueue or poll? programming w/ libevent is convenient at times, the decision poll vs libevent should not be made based on performance considerations, exception beeing the above massive concurrent connection case. -- Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting - Hamburg & Amsterdam
