Zach Brown presented a paper on this at the Ottawa Linux Symposium
called `Ninja Adventures in the Stratosphere, or Two Attempts at Server
Optimisation'. I can't find a copy of the paper online though. Zab?
The one-line summary is: With Stephen Tweedie's SIGIO changes, using the
signal-driven model significantly outperforms poll().
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