Re: select() efficiency / epoll

[Willy Tarreau]

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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