Fast writes, slow reads

[Brion Vibber]

Evan Martin wrote:

>This sounds like a problem I was having related to the backend method
>libevent was using.
>
Uh-oh... :)

>  Which one are you using?  To find out:
>% EVENT_SHOW_METHOD=1 ./memcached 
>libevent using: select
>
FreeBSD 5.1, libevent 0.7a installed from ports:
$ EVENT_SHOW_METHOD=1 memcached
libevent using: kqueue

Red Hat 8.0, libevent 0.7a installed from source with no special options:
$ EVENT_SHOW_METHOD=1 ./memcached
libevent using: poll

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)