<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div>Hi - <br>  I am a newbie to libevent , interested in the same because I am writing an high-performance server that is supposed to take a lot of transaction hits per second. <br>  I got the event test.c in the home page to get started. <br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://monkey.org/%7Eprovos/libevent/event-test.c">http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent/event-test.c</a></span><br><br>  I downloaded the latest version of libevent - 1.3a . Built the same. <br><br>When I try to run the application - I am seeing the following . <br><br>$ ./event-test<br>Write data to event.fifo<br><and then the application hangs><br><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br></span>What is the sample application supposed to do ? Why would it hang on the event_dispatch() call at the end of main() . Am I missing something important here. Thanks for your help. <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br><br></span><br>My kernel version is 2.6+ . So I guess epoll is supported on my Linux box - Redhat EL. <br><br>$ rpm -qa | grep kernel<br>kernel-ib-1.0-1<br>kernel-utils-2.4-13.1.83<br>kernel-2.6.9-42.0.0.0.1.EL<br><br><br><br></div></div></div><br> <hr size=1>Looking for a deal? <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=47094/*http://farechase.yahoo.com/;_ylc=X3oDMTFicDJoNDllBF9TAzk3NDA3NTg5BHBvcwMxMwRzZWMDZ3JvdXBzBHNsawNlbWFpbC1uY20-">Find great prices on flights and hotels</a> with Yahoo! FareChase.</body></html>