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From: Anthony ''Ishpeck'' Tedjamulia <ishpeck@ishpeck.net>
To: Friedrich Locke <friedrich.locke@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: high performance server design approach
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On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 08:23:38AM -0200, Friedrich Locke wrote:
> 0) To have a single process "accepting" incoming connection on port 80 and
> send the new socket fd to one of the http server in a round-roubin manner,

DJB's publicfile does something rather similar. 

http://cr.yp.to/publicfile.html

You could spend all day wondering.  But if you really want to
know and not just argue, you should do as the author of that web
server says: "Profile.  Don't speculate." 

It may just be that context switches are not the real bottleneck
in your service.