On Fri, 26 May 2006 13:31:33 -0400, Ross Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 01:10:30PM -0400, Jean-Paul Calderone wrote: >> Of course, if there is a volunteer to maintain and support an extension >> module, that's better than nothing. PyEpoll is missing a couple features I >> would like to see - the size of the epoll set is hard-coded to FD_SETSIZE, >> for example: while this makes little difference to Python 2.4.3 (since you >> cannot use sockets with fileno >= FD_SETSIZE at all in that version of >> Python), it is a serious limitation for other versions of Python. >> Similarly, the number of events to retrieve when invoking epoll_wait() is >> also hardcoded to FD_SETSIZE. Real applications often want to tune this >> value to avoid being overwhelmed by io events. > >It is not true that this module limits the number of file descriptors to >FD_SETSIZE. You were probable looking at the number of file descriptors >returned by the epoll call, which is already limited by FD_SETSIZE because >of the size of event array. In any case, this can be made tunable.
Woops, you're right, of course. I forgot that the argument to epoll_create is only a hint, not a limit. Sorry about that. Jean-Paul _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
