From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2004-11-26T22:58:00+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Multiplexer - linear non-blocking I/O


"Mikael Brockman" <mikael@phubuh.org> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:87vfbszr5m.fsf@igloo.phubuh.org...
> Blocking I/O is really easy to use.  But when you use it to write
> servers, you run into problems: you can't run two blocking syscalls
> simultaneously.  So if you're writing a huge file to some guy, every
> other client is stalled, and no one new can connect.  Unacceptable, for
> many types of servers.  They need non-blocking I/O.
>
> Non-blocking I/O is a lot more annoying to use.  Instead of going

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> It'll run in one thread.  Multiplexer handles the select(3) calls.

What is the advantage over a solution with threads?  IOW, why should I use
multiplexer over individual threads per connection?

Kind regards

    robert