Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 11 Sep 1999 07:14:39 +0000 ( ) | From | Gerhard Mack <> | Subject | Re: > 15,000 Simultaneous Connections |
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On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, John Gardiner Myers wrote:
[snip] > NT has solved this whole class of problem with completion ports. They > handle the huge-number-of-connection problem well, they handle other > types of events, they are SMP-efficient. The concept goes back to the > days of VMS, why do unix kernel developers have such a big case of NIH? > These select() replacement proposals and POSIX aio have such limited > uses. They're crap.
To quote the document leaked from MS last year on Linux:
There are literally hundreds of small research projects attempting to improve various parts of the Linux OS. Some projects include:
* Linux 2.2 - High Availability features such as deeper RAID support (RAID 0, 1, 5 supported today), volume management; file system performance improvements; asynchronous I/O & completion ports; Ipv6; . An excellent feature summary can be found on: http://lwn.net/980730/a/2.2chFinal.html.
Seems we already have completion ports ;)
If I recall they were added late in the 2.1.x development cycle, you wasted a full head of steam and a batch of flames for nothing I'm afraid.
Gerhard
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<>< As a computer I find your faith in technology amusing.
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