Re: > 15,000 Simultaneous Connections

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 6 Sep 1999 10:46:15 +0100 (BST)

> in order to be able to handle large numbers of concurrent connections (open
> sockets), there are really only two ways of doing it efficiently:
>
> (1) single process using threads
> (2) single process, event-driven queues

(3) groups of processes each handling a bunch of connections so that overall
performance is higher than a single task which sometimes ends up blocked
unavoidably, and also on SMP boxes.

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