One Million Concurrent TCP connections

Re:One Million Concurrent TCP connections by gorset on Friday September 23, 2011 @06:34AM (#3029499)

I fully agree that kqueue is awesome, but what specifically is broken on OSX? I've used in extensively on that platform, and haven't run into any showstoppers.

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Re:One Million Concurrent TCP connections by asomiv on Friday September 23, 2011 @08:01AM (#3029679)

You can't poll on TTYs for example. I remember this bug from 2004 and apparently they still haven't fixed it.

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Re:One Million Concurrent TCP connections by gorset on Friday September 23, 2011 @08:27AM (#3029735)

Yeah, the lack of support for TTYs can be annoying when writing a terminal application (a workaround for some cases is to use pipes), but it hardly qualifies as a significant problem for writing network applications.

Here's a more interesting bug in OSX: kqueue will sometimes return the wrong number for the listen backlog for a socket under high load.

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