+carl On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 11:55 AM, Ryan Michela <delta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I found the following for epoll, but I'm not sure how directly it > translates to gRPC. > > Therefore you should only use epoll if all following is true: >> >> - * Your application runs a thread poll which handles many network >> connections by a handful of threads. You would lose most of *epoll* >> benefits >> in a single-threaded application, and most likely it won’t outperform >> *poll*. >> >> >> - * You expect to have a reasonably large number of sockets to >> monitor (at least 1,000); with a smaller number epoll is not likely to >> have >> any performance benefits over poll and may actually worse the performance; >> >> >> - * Your connections are relatively long-lived; as stated above epoll >> will be slower than poll in a situation when a new connection sends a few >> bytes of data and immediately disconnects because of extra system call >> required to add the descriptor into epoll set; >> >> >> - * Your app depends on other Linux-specific features (so in case >> portability question would suddenly pop up, epoll wouldn’t be the only >> roadblock), or you can provide wrappers for other supported systems. In >> the >> last case you should strongly consider libevent. >> >> https://www.ulduzsoft.com/2014/01/select-poll-epoll- > practical-difference-for-system-architects/ > > On Wednesday, September 13, 2017 at 11:51:34 AM UTC-7, Ryan Michela wrote: >> >> Does anybody have any information on when it makes sense to switch from >> Netty's NIO transport to the native epoll transport? >> >> Is there some crossover where one makes sense over the other? >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups " > grpc.io" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to grpc-io+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to grpc-io@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/grpc-io. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/grpc-io/b2b1250e-89e3-45bd-a1a5-5709913c51ff%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/grpc-io/b2b1250e-89e3-45bd-a1a5-5709913c51ff%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Spencer Fang -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "grpc.io" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to grpc-io+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to grpc-io@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/grpc-io. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/grpc-io/CAK%3D-x_7pQqaHVH4cdBpnw77csTPFM8fhY%2BhCYFBh3oxKYJHEQQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
