Re: select() efficiency / epoll

[Davy Durham]

That's probably a good idea.  Where would I find out what other projects 
use it?

Willy Tarreau wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 06:01:15AM -0500, Davy Durham wrote:
>  
>
> > I just mean that when  I debug and catch the segv, it's dies because 
> > some pointers now have corrupted values.  (usually because something is 
> > overwriting some memory some where)
> >
> > I'm currently re-writing some code to make it use select() instead of 
> > epoll_wait() and see if everything is suddently fixed.  If so, then I 
> > will suspect that epoll has a problem.  But it's still not ruled out 
> > being my fault since it could be a timing issue that makes the crash 
> > show up.
> >    
>
> Just out of curiosity, have you had the opportunity to read some other
> code which uses epoll ? Maybe reading others code could enlighten you
> on potential bugs in your code, potential races, etc...
>
> Regards,
> Willy
>  

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