The funny thing is that he's either going to pick the wrong solution for the workload or spend a lot of time on creating a hybrid which will work as good as epoll would without augmentation.
Zed is clearly out to change the world and I would very much like him to succeed but he just seems to be missing the obvious here, which is that idle connections are the ones to worry about (because they're very expensive!) so his benchmark at this point in time is useless.
First off, again you miss the point that I've already got poll working in Mongrel2. If this fails (which I'll know since I like, measure stuff rather than care a bottle of cheetah blood around like you) then I'll just go put epoll in there or leave it with poll.
But hey, if I don't make it back alive from my complete dangerous experiment in disproving that epoll is always the way to go always you can come get me. Bring a big gun because this stuff is so scawy and howwible I might not make out alive.
Zed is clearly out to change the world and I would very much like him to succeed but he just seems to be missing the obvious here, which is that idle connections are the ones to worry about (because they're very expensive!) so his benchmark at this point in time is useless.