getting to yaws, devpoll

[Hal Snyder]

Joe Armstrong <joe@REDACTED> writes:

> If you are doing [yaws] benchmarks then the following question is
> very interesting.

...

> 3) Measure the throughput as you massivly overload the system.
>
>    (say the page rate is 1000 pages/sec)
>
>    Subject the system to 10000 requests/sec.

I wonder, wouldn't this situation be helped by kernel polling?

Per Bergqvist was working on a patch, but - I don't see devpoll
stuff in a recent snapshot (otp_src_P9_2002-06-30).

http://www.erlang.org/ml-archive/erlang-questions/200203/msg00038.html