Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 09:28:36 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Manoj Chaudhari <manojc@dnrc.bell-labs.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: select() system call Message-ID: <XFMail.000919092836.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <02d401c02254$ccc7d760$e1e9b487@dnrc.belllabs.com>
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On 19-Sep-00 Manoj Chaudhari wrote: > Hi, > > From Notes in man for select(): > For historical reasons, select() will always examine the first 256 > descriptors. > > Has anybody corrected this ?? where can I get the patch ?? > > How good is select() system call in FreeBSD 3.5 and onwards ?? > When FD_SETSIZE is really big like 32768. You probably want to look at using poll() in 3.x, and in 4.x and later using the new kqueue system, which can give you a dramatical performance increase. > thanks > > -Manoj -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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