Re: Practical limit for number of TCP connections?

[Richard Seaman, Jr.]

On Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 01:21:15PM -0800, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:

> It sounds to me like each and every time there is a thread context switch,
> some code in the library may have to execute a (perhaps enormous) call to
> select() or else to poll().  Yes?

poll().  It used to use select().  And, not only at each thread
context switch, but each time it has to consider whether to
do a switch at all (eg. at the end of a timeslice).

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