Top "Epoll" questions

epoll is a Linux 2.6 readiness notification API for sockets, pipes, and special event-, signal-, and timer descriptors which can operate both in level- and edge-triggered mode, although presently only level-triggered behaviour is in accordance with the documentation.

Boost Asio single threaded performance

I am implementing custom server that needs to maintain very large number (100K or more) of long lived connections. Server …

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I can't understand polling/select in python

I'm doing some threaded asynchronous networking experiment in python, using UDP. I'd like to understand polling and the select python …

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non blocking tcp connect with epoll

My linux application is performing non-blocking TCP connect syscall and then use epoll_wait to detect three way handshake completion. …

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epoll_wait always sets EPOLLOUT bit?

On a listening socket I set the EPOLLIN bit however on client connections I set EPOLLIN | EPOLLOUT bits to struct …

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Multithreading UDP server with epoll?

I'd like to develop a multithreaded UDP server in C/Linux. The service is running on a single port x, …

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Scalable server framework in C++

I am looking to write a server application in C++ that is meant to handle tens of thousands of clients …

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epoll with timerfd

I want to use the it_interval of newValue to set the interval of the timeout. But in my example, …

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epoll_wait fails due to EINTR, how to remedy this?

My epoll_wait fails due to EINTR. My gdb trace shows this: enter code here 221 in ../nptl/sysdeps/pthread/createthread.…

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How to correctly read data when using epoll_wait

I am trying to port to Linux an existing Windows C++ code that uses IOCP. Having decided to use epoll_…

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Why native epoll support is introduced in Netty?

I believe Java's NIO library will use epoll on Linux machines. What are all the advantages of using Epoll instead …

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