Top "Epoll" questions

Is 'epoll' the essential reason that Tornadoweb(or Nginx) is so fast?

Tornadoweb and Nginx are popular web servers for the moment and many benchmarkings show that they have a better performance …

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Performance tuning for Netty 4.1 on linux machine

I am building a messaging application using Netty 4.1 Beta3 for designing my server and the server understands MQTT protocol. This …

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How to get errno when epoll_wait returns EPOLLERR?

Is there a way to find out the errno when epoll_wait returns EPOLLERR for a particular fd? Is there …

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select(), poll() or epoll() ? for sysfs attribute

I am working with gpio interrupts. I have a file in "/sys/class/gpio/gpio38/value". I want a notification …

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Epoll on regular files

Can epoll (on Linux) be somehow useful for regular files? I know it's primarily used with sockets but just wonder.

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serving large file using select, epoll or kqueue

Nginx uses epoll, or other multiplexing techniques(select) for its handling multiple clients, i.e it does not spawn a …

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epoll performance

Can anyone please help me to answer the questions about epoll_wait. Is it overkill to use many threads that …

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Socket server with epoll and threads

I am trying to create a socket server in C for a Collaborative real-time editor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…

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epoll_wait on several Threads faster?

I am thinking of programming a tcp server based on epoll. To achieve the best performance i want to implement …

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