[zedshaw]

I totally absolutely agree they should fix epoll, but the way they've designed I don't see it happening. Of course they could fix the call for doing the actual select and make it at least as fast as poll, but the fact that you have to do a syscall for every file descriptor is idiotic.

[jacquesm]

Some people actually did fix epoll, benchmarked the results and concluded it wasn't worth it.

http://www.linuxinsight.com/ols2004_comparing_and_evaluating...