From: Christian <christians@...>
Date: 2001-01-22T09:04:10+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:9689] Re: Non-blocking I/O?


"Ben Tilly" <ben_tilly@hotmail.com> wrote:

> "Christian" <christians@syd.microforte.com.au> wrote:
> >
> >This is very likely outside the interest of the discussion, but Linux's
> >select() is extremely slow.
>
> Reference please?

Our server cluster is CPU limited (we have a 96Gb switch). Profiling showed
that much of the time was spent waiting on select(). I sent a junior to
investigate, he hacked the kernel and we got a speed increase. Not exactly a
precise reference, but empirically accurate and my intentions were honest.
Thanks for the networking reference.

Christian.