On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 03:05:04PM -0800, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > If you have a busy website, and you have a file descriptor limit of, say > 1024, that means you can have 1024 people pseudo-polling and no one else > gets *ANYTHING*. Otherwise, you can have lots and lots (2000+) of > clients polling every so often (once every second or two) and still stay > within the 1024 file descriptor limit.
OK. I understand what you are saying. Is this 1024 file descriptor limit a real problem or can it be increased in Linux? *If* it could be increased then would you agree that pseudo-polling would be more efficient/scalable? (BTW, I know just enough about web programming to be dangerous, not more. :) Chris -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
