[Libevent-users] patch for "realtime signal" events in libevent-1.4.3-stable

[Phil Budne]

on Thu, 15 May 2008 Nick Mathewson wrote:
> Out of curiousity, how did the benchmarks turn out?  Any reason to try
> to get rtsig working again in the mainline distribution?
>
> Nick

On Fedora 8 (2.6.24.5-85.fc8), the results were consistantly a little
worse than epoll. I didn't check whether the benchmark ever causes
signal queue overflow, which is the nightmarish part of using RT
signals.

You can view plots at:
http://www.ultimate.com/phil/temp/libevent/