[Twisted-Python] epoll and other questions

Itamar Shtull-Trauring itamar at itamarst.org
Wed Oct 6 16:06:46 EDT 2004


On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 15:24, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> Is there any plan to use epoll instead of poll to make twisted scalabile
> with hundred thousand simultanous sockets connected?

It wouldn't be hard to do, mainly someone needs to wrap epoll for
Python.

> twisted use epoll. I assume my application would require no change, so I
> can start developing with current twisted, I can test it with poll, and
> then later fix the internals when the slowdown becomes noticeable.  Right?

Correct.

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