From: Francis Cianfrocca <garbagecat10@...>
Date: 2007-07-12T20:49:43+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Eventmachine 0.8.0 released with epoll, breaks Ruby file-descriptor limit

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On 7/12/07, Florian Frank <flori@nixe.ping.de> wrote:
>
>
> This is great news! I just gave the epoll feature a try and it seemed to
> work
> without problems. I remember that several people tried to use epoll for
> their
> extensions before, but all of them gave eventually up, because using
> anything
> else than select clashed with Ruby internals' use of select for almost
> anything.
> What did you do differently? Didn't you have any problems?



Well, it was a very extensive piece of code to write, requiring changes in
almost every of part of EM's reactor core. Getting the interoperability with
Ruby threads was challenging but we got it to work. I haven't heard of any
serious problems with this epoll implementation. It's been in the EM source
tree for nearly a month now, and we deliberately waited that length of time
before putting it into a formal release in case problems turned up.

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