From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 13 9:59:17 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EC4637B401 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 09:59:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from perrin.int.nxad.com (internal.ext.nxad.com [69.1.70.251]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E36B43FB1 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 09:59:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sean@perrin.int.nxad.com) Received: by perrin.int.nxad.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B34B221085; Thu, 13 Mar 2003 09:58:41 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 09:58:41 -0800 From: Sean Chittenden To: Peter Jeremy Cc: David Cuthbert , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: first parameter to select Message-ID: <20030313175841.GF79234@perrin.int.nxad.com> References: <3E702BCC.3030208@kanga.org> <20030313083710.GA8225@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030313083710.GA8225@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-PGP-Key: finger seanc@FreeBSD.org X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3849 3760 1AFE 7B17 11A0 83A6 DD99 E31F BC84 B341 X-Web-Homepage: http://sean.chittenden.org/ Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >To be honest, I've never passed anything but FD_SETSIZE for this > >parameter. When I'm writing a performance critical server, I use > >poll() instead. It's faster > > This is an interesting claim. Do you have some pointers to back it > up? http://www.kegel.com/dkftpbench/Poller_bench.html#results If you want fast, use kqueue(). -sc -- Sean Chittenden To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message