[jacquesm]

Pipes, localhost, who is counting, as far as I'm concerned that's the same thing, making it seem as if for the purpose of this test that's a significant difference is simply conversational trickery.

If you have tested this on real live servers then there is no evidence of that in your posting, and to suggest that this:

http://dpaste.de/32o8/

is anything but a localhost test is simply bogus.

The only use case where you may be right that poll is advantageous as far as I can see is streaming media servers (video, audio, other large files), image servers are the ones with the worst active-to-total ratios, especially if the images are small. I should know, I only serve up a few billion of them every day. A few years ago or so I was stupid enough to think that video was hard, man was I ever wrong. Repeated connections to the same host, that's a much bigger killer than pumping bits.

[zedshaw]

Testing this on real live servers is confounding. Man you guys really don't get this. If you want to test epoll and poll over file descriptors you test that. You don't test a billion other things in a network server. That confounds your results.

But what's really amazing is this is the test the proponents epoll have been using for 8 years. Where was your objection back when they were using it for that?