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Date:      Wed, 25 Sep 2002 11:11:09 +0100
From:      David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        Michel Oosterhof <m.oosterhof@xs4all.nl>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kqueue
Message-ID:  <20020925101109.GA46927@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: <20020925081253.GA98975@xs4all.nl>
References:  <20020925081253.GA98975@xs4all.nl>

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On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 10:12:53AM +0200, Michel Oosterhof wrote:
> I've got one more question, actually a fact that surprises me, it
> seems that tail(1) is the only place in the base system that actually
> uses kqueue.

It is also used in libc for the DNS resolver.

> Is there a reason for this? I read in most places
> kqueue() is more efficient, scalable, etc.

Probably lack of time to convert more programs. I suspect that inetd
or syslogd might benefit from kqueueing, but I guess the real gains
would be in applications like apache.

	David.

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