Optimizing sockets to 1000 requests/sec? (Was: Sockets and messaging services)

[Paul Rubin]

Duncan Grisby <dgrisby at uk.research.att.com> writes:
> >If it's on the local machine, why mess with TCP at all, instead of using
> >AF_UNIX?  I'm not sure whether the OP intended to run locally tough.
> 
> Indeed, using Unix sockets makes it 20% to 25% faster than the TCP
> loopback. Somewhere along the line I got the impression we were
> talking about TCP, though.

Another idea, how about using preforking (like Apache) instead of
threading or asyncore?