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by FooBarWidget 4867 days ago
I/O is handled through EventMachine, not the normal Ruby I/O calls, and can therefore scale arbitrarily.
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marketer 4867 days ago
It is a little worrying that if some (perhaps inexperienced) developer arbitrarily calls a method that invokes Ruby's select, the process will crash mysteriously.
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FooBarWidget 4861 days ago
It won't crash. On many platforms, Ruby uses special select() hacks to extend the number of file descriptors select() can handle. On OS X it can apparently handle 10556 file descriptors. If you go over that, Ruby apparently simulates an EMFILES error.
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