* Doug White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010411 16:07] wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>
> > Basically, when apache is listening on multiple IPs/ports it needs
> > to select() on several filedescriptors. The problem (under FreeBSD
> > at least) is that whenever you have some process select()'ing on
> > a descriptor and another process wants to do the same you get a
> > "select collision", a collision requires that all processes waiting
> > on the same select channel wake up then reassert thier desire to
> > select. So... if you have 500 apache processes select()'ing and
> > one wakes up to service a request, finished serving, then goes to
> > select again, all the rest (499) have to wake up and reaffirm thier
> > desire to select().
>
> We haven't applied wakeup_one() to select() yet? (I think I've argued
> about this before.)
>
> Someone get cracking! :)
I'm not sure it's possible without redesigning the way select works.
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