Re: Practical limit for number of TCP connections?

[Jonathan Lemon]

In article 
<local.mail.freebsd-hackers/[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
 you write:
>In my case, load is reasonably distributed.  Is poll() really that much
>better than select()?  I thought that, excepting bit flag manipulations,
>it worked basically the same way on the kernel end.

Yes, it is better.  Select uses the same backend as poll(), but those
"bit flag manipulations" that you are talking about consume a measurable
amount of CPU time when you start throwing thousands of descriptors at it.
--
Jonathan


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