Re: > 15,000 Simultaneous Connections

Chuck Lever (cel@monkey.org)
Wed, 8 Sep 1999 11:52:58 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Joerg Pommnitz wrote:
> Mike Jagdis <mike@roan.co.uk> wrote:
> > I don't see why you would want to cripple the API by making it less
> > than general anyway :-).
>
> Exactly my point! That's why it should be possible to extend it
> beyond file descriptors. As I wrote already, synchronous signal
> handling would be my top priority, SYSV-IPC would be a nice
> addition.

if someone is trying to implement the API described in banga's paper, you
should send some e-mail to the authors (jeff mogul and gaurav banga) and
ask them if they have more research on this besides what is described in
that paper. at usenix, i asked about some details during gaurav's
presentation, and jeff mogul hinted that there were some things they had
been working on (new APIs to support sharing the event queue over multiple
threads?) but that weren't included in the paper.

- Chuck Lever

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