From: christopher baus (christopher_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-12-23 15:47:41
> Maybe on WAN servers, but not on high performance LAN based servers.
> Ruunning a simple test on 100 file descriptors, here is what I get.
>
> poll() calls per second: 107906
> select() calls per second: 104891
> epoll() calls per second: 70923
Interesting. Is this the number of calls to the readiness handler? I
have to admit that I'm surprised by those results. I guess epoll doesn't
really help until the number of FDs gets much higher (for instance in the
thousands).
This makes me want to try my own tests.