Re: [Mldonkey-users] providing epoll support for mldonkey

[Fortin Denis]

Le ven 09/05/2003 à 18:02, Christian Loitsch a écrit :
> > I think my adsl modem/router (Alcatel speedtouch Home ethernet) cannot
> > handle more than 300~400 connections simultaneously, so the question is
> > : since most of us are adsl users does it worth the effort to implement
> > epoll in mldonkey to handle so few connections.
> I guess this depends if your speedtouch is configured as modem, or as
> router.  Normally only speedtouch home pros are capable of providing
> NAT/router functiality, but it is possible to update the firmware.
> 
> If only configured as modem, there shouldn't be any reason for the
> 300-400 connection-limit, in fact the speedtouch should only packets,
> which it will put onto the wire.
> 
> If it is a router (especially a NAT-router), the number of connections
> is limited by the "lookup"-table, this table also exists inside the
> linux-kernel, but it is possible to augment the size.
> 
> If your speedtouch is configured as modem, the bottleneck should be
> inside the kernel, or the bandwidth.
> 
> 
> christian

Ok thanks for the explanation. So it make sense to implement epoll
inside mldonkey.

Denis