Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 16:06:45 -0600 From: "Richard Seaman, Jr." <dick@tar.com> To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Practical limit for number of TCP connections? Message-ID: <19991219160645.E317@tar.com> In-Reply-To: <47931.945638475@monkeys.com>; from rfg@monkeys.com on Sun, Dec 19, 1999 at 01:21:15PM -0800 References: <19991219145821.D317@tar.com> <47931.945638475@monkeys.com>
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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). -- Richard Seaman, Jr. email: dick@tar.com 5182 N. Maple Lane phone: 262-367-5450 Chenequa WI 53058 fax: 262-367-5852 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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