On Thu, 22 Dec 2005 21:16:11 -0000 (GMT) "christopher baus" <christopher@baus.net> wrote:
Interesting. Could you give an example where select() is faster than epoll()? I suspect it is with smaller numbers of file descriptors.
I knew someone would ask. I did that work a long time ago, so let me start off concurrent prayers and grep. I was reading a linux networking book, and the performance numbers in that book seemd a bit ludicrous (I *did* work in a unix kernel group for a while, and I've used unix networking for many years). So, I took his examples, and his awesome performance was just in making the system call (it was actually failing with an error). Since I had started that course of action, I continued with my own tests. Unfortunately, the grep failed to find what I was looking for. I'll keep looking (I may have done it on an old machine that I do not have anymore).