Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
I don't see how keeping a connection open creates extra load in a
modern operating system. An open file descriptor is just an entry
in a kernel table.
Murray, the following links are two good articles that talks about
*nix environments issues and evolution dealing with high scale designs:
http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html
http://tinyclouds.org/iocp-links.html
If you don't get caught up with the "Windows-hate" comments (and
incorrect assumptions about Windows), try to catch on that the
technology employed in Windows is a direction for some of the *nix
flavors. But the above is not about windows, but how Unix is trying to
catch up! <g>
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Sincerely
Hector Santos
http://www.santronics.com