From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 4 9:21: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from hoser.devel (hoser.devel.redhat.com [207.175.42.139]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7672A14C46 for ; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 09:21:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from zab@zabbo.net) Received: from localhost (zab@localhost) by hoser.devel (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA17342 for ; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 12:20:59 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: hoser.devel: zab owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 12:20:59 -0400 (EDT) From: Zach Brown X-Sender: zab@hoser To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: poll() vs select() In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > But poll() copies in HUGE amounts of data compared to the few bytes for > thousands of FDs that select does. but the size of the select() mask is dependant on the highest numbered fd that we care about, rather than the number of fds we actually care about. this becomes highly uncool in a mondo threaded server that shares fd space :) -- zach - - - - - - 007 373 5963 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message