Hi, I have a question regarding scalability of timers in Twisted.
Say I have a massive number of periodic timers (lets say each with period 1s, but all slightly time shifted to each other). As far as I understand, timers are implemented ultimately by setting the timeout parameter when calling into OS select/poll/epoll/kqueue. If this is true, then the number of timers scales linearly with the number of syscalls. This can get limiting (the total number of syscalls a Linux box can sustain is a couple of 100k's per second). As more and more timers are setup, the timeout essentially will approach 0. On the upside, timers will fire precisely. However, say I am fine with a precision of 1ms. Is there a way that limits the syscall rate to 1000/s (given no FD activity happens) _independently_ of the number of timers setup? Timers that fall into a certain ms slice would all fire roughly at the same time (still ordered). Is that possible? Thanks, Tobias _______________________________________________ Twisted-Python mailing list Twisted-Python@twistedmatrix.com http://twistedmatrix.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twisted-python
