[medusa] Re: Hideously long selects?

[Bill Tutt]

> From: Skip Montanaro [mailto:skip@m...]
> 
> 
> I'm not much of a select expert, but it seems to me that this 
> is what's
> causing my problem. Let's assume all those file descriptors 
> are wacko web
> browsers (not a big stretch), so they aren't going to send 
> input any time
> soon, so it will be a *long* time before Medusa falls out of 
> the select call
> and gets around to thinking about new connections, right? 

No, the listen() socket should be in the file descriptor list passed into
select(). select() should return when a new connection attempt is made, then
handle_accept() usually gets called. (per handle_read_event() in
asyncore.py)

> Shouldn't the
> timeout be substantially shorter, 0.5-2.0 seconds perhaps?
> 

Not particularlily you don't really want to be eating up useless CPU if you
don't have to.

Bill