Re: event-handler in opensolaris

On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 12:44:06AM +0000, Amanda Waite wrote:
>    You can then use "solaris-devpoll" as the
>    event-handler which is the recommended option for Solaris. This is a
>    better option than falling back to using "poll" as the event-handler.

if you have 1 single worker (the default) or a few of them, poll and devpoll 
should be equivalent IMHO; do you have any data to back up the benefits of
devpoll over poll in solaris for 1 or a low number of filehandles?

I am running lighttpd in Solaris 10 SPARC (v490, 8 x 1350Mhz) with
server.max-worker = 128 and doing 900 QPS using poll and 60% CPU idle.

for Solaris 10 I would warn against using server.network-backend = sendfilev
as there is a bug on it which will lock some of transactions in the kernel and
that hasn't been yet fixed AFAIK (I think it was fixed already in OpenSolaris
but haven't tested it); server.network-backend = "writev" could be used
instead even if it is not the "preferred" method.

Carlo