Linux server architecture

smokes · 2003-04-04T17:54:26

im currently porting my mud server code to linux and I have a couple of questions: If I were to fork() every client would the server be just as ineffient as a winsock server which spawnes a thread for every client? Should I rather stick to a process which polls select in one big loop using nonblocking sockets? I would like to be able to handle a couple of hundred simultanious connections. any feedback will be appreciated :-)

Networking and Multiplayer Programming

Started by smokes April 01, 2003 08:30 AM

9 comments, last by smokes 21 years, 10 months ago

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April 04, 2003 02:18 AM

Speaking about the latest pthreads implementation under Linux (i'm using linuxthreads v0.7 beta), they still run through processes (each thread has its own PID, as the CLONE_PID flag is still not usable with the clone() method... =\... I hope situation changes in future.

"I'll be Bach!" (c) Johann Sebastian Schwarzenegger

[edited by - x33 on April 4, 2003 6:54:26 PM]

"I'll be Bach!" (c) Johann Sebastian Schwarzenegger