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Re: Mail Data termination

2011-08-21 21:31:49

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


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