Is there even a kqueue-based Twisted reactor?
Yes... ish. More detail here: http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/1918.
Hi Glyph,
first, thanks as always!
The pykqueue 1.3 and 2.0 referenced in that ticket seem to be no longer maintained.
On the other hand, Python has built-in support for kqueue since Python 2.6 in the select module.
I have adjusted the Twisted kqreactor to select.kqueue and made a package:
https://github.com/oberstet/txkqreactor
I have tested that reactor successfully with Autobahn WebSockets on FreeBSD 8.2 (running as a VirtualBox x86 VM). When I'm home later, I can check out Mac.
Doing the Autobahn tests helped me finding the only non-canonical change required
https://github.com/oberstet/txkqreactor/commit/27302b4f643cd3967289ff11d8113...
Is there any regression/test/stresstest I could run to verify the stuff actually works?
The Autobahn WS tests do quite some stuff, but they do not test concurrency and high connections numbers ..
Cheers, Tobias