[Haskell-cafe] Optimizing a high-traffic network architecture

[John Meacham]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 02:02:02PM -0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
> With 2k connections the overhead of select() is going to start to be a
> problem.  You would notice the system time going up.  -threaded may help
> with this, because it calls select() less often.

we should be using /dev/poll on systems that support it. it cuts down on
the overhead a whole lot. 'poll(2)' is also mostly portable and usually
better than select since there is no arbitrary file descriptor limit and
it doesn't have to traverse the whole bitset. a few #ifdefs should let
us choose the optimum one available on any given system.

        John

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