[erlang-questions] fast file sending - erlang & nginx

[Rapsey]

On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Roberto Ostinelli <roberto@REDACTED>wrote:

> 2010/11/21 Rapsey <rapsey@REDACTED>:
> > I've done quite a bit of testing on this stuff and the end conclusion is
> > that gen_tcp:send is simply slow. It uses way to much CPU than it should
> and
> > I don't know why. I tried looking at the inet_drv.c stuff, but there is
> just
> > to much code in there.
> > Since my work involves writing a streaming server and throughput is king.
> I
> > gave up on gen_tcp and just implemented my own socket driver and later
> > turned into a NIF (more flexible and general use). It's fast as hell now.
> >
> >
> > Sergej
>
> hi sergej,
>
> is this closed-source? if not, where can it be found?
>
> thank you,
>
> r.
>

Closed. But it really does not take that much effort to implement it. The
basic building blocks are an epoll/kqueue thread and a pipe to communicate
with it. Once it's all created, send an erlang PID to the thread over the
pipe so that the thread can communicate with erlang.


Sergej