Re: Select/Poll

[khandelw@cs.fsu.edu]

Hello,
   Can you give more details - Like which machine which vendor etc.,
On a sony vaio pcg frv31 laptop/ redhat 9.0/ after firing some 36,000+ request
my select multiplexed server used to fail. With select I believe you not get
any packet loss...

- Amit

PS. If you can post the code that will be great...


Quoting jyotiraditya@softhome.net:

> Hello All,
>
> In one of the threads named: "Linux's implementation of poll() not
> scalable?'
> Linus has stated the following:
> **************
> Neither poll() nor select() have this problem: they don't get more
> expensive as you have more and more events - their expense is the number
> of file descriptors, not the number of events per se. In fact, both poll()
> and select() tend to perform _better_ when you have pending events, as
> they are both amenable to optimizations when there is no need for waiting,
> and scanning the arrays can use early-out semantics.
> **************
>
> Please help me understand the above.. I'm using select in a server to read
> on multiple FDs and the clients are dumping messages (of fixed size) in a
> loop on these FDs and the server maintainig those FDs is not able to get all
> the messages.. Some of the last messages sent by each client are lost.
> If the number of clients and hence the number of FDs (in the server) is
> increased the loss of data is proportional.
> eg: 5 clients send messages (100 each) to 1 server and server receives
>    96 messages from each client.
>    10 clients send messages (100 by each) to 1 server and server again
>    receives 96 from each client.
>
> If a small sleep in introduced between sending messages the loss of data
> decreases.
> Also please explain the algorithm select uses to read messages on FDs and
> how does it perform better when number of FDs increases.
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Jyotiraditya
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