New submission from Charles-François Natali: In issue #16853, it was noted that many several projects don't set epoll.poll() maxevents argument, which effectively limits the number of events retuend to FD_SETSIZE-1 (set in selectmodule.c).
Also, the methode documentation can confuse users into thinking that by default, the number of events is unlimited: """ .. method:: epoll.poll(timeout=-1, maxevents=-1) Wait for events. timeout in seconds (float) """ It would probably make sense to use a larger default value for epoll max events (the only downside is increased memory consumption for the events array), maybe based on RLIMIT_NOFILE hard limit. And the documentation should probably be improved. ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 179157 nosy: neologix priority: normal severity: normal stage: needs patch status: open title: increase epoll.poll() maxevents default value, and improve documentation type: enhancement versions: Python 3.4 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue16873> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
