[self-interest] Re: Use epoll instead of select on linux

[Russell Allen]

This is all very cool. 

Are there any Self-side changes needed or just the VM? 

Russell 

On 2014-02-21 12:17, ardeujho wrote: 

> ardeujho <ardeujho at cd.pn> writes:
> 
>> Epoll has better performance than select when there is a large number of
>> open files and does not have the 1,024 file descriptor limit.
> 
> I've made a change to the pull request to account for the fact that
> epoll doesn't work on regular files. Attempting to do an epoll_ctl on
> these results in an EPERM error.
> 
> I've worked around this by keeping a set of file descriptors that
> produce this error and automatically adding these to the result of a
> select call from Self as being readable and writable.
> 
> Longer term it might be worthwhile investigating how to get asynchronous
> i/o working with regular files on Linux to improve performance in i/o
> bound apps.
> 
> In the meantime the workaround means that there is a limit of 1024 open
> regular files but no limit to the number of sockets and other similar
> file types. 
> 

 

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