libevent and epoll

[Brad Fitzpatrick]

It's not a config option.  You just patch and it works.

And use our binary, which is built with a libevent with epoll support,
including epoll bugfixes which aren't in 0.7a (the latest libevent version
on the site).

http://www.danga.com/memcached/dist/binaries/linux-x86/memcached-1.1.9-snapshot-dbg.gz

Test it with:

$ EVENT_SHOW_METHOD=1 ./memcached

It should say "Using: epoll" or similar.



On Mon, 23 Sep 2003, Perrin Harkins wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 16:25, Brad Fitzpatrick wrote:
> > You don't need 2.6 for epoll; there's a 2.4 backport of it that works
> > beautifully.  It's just a small kernel patch away.
>
> I feel lame asking this, but can anyone give me a pointer on exactly how
> this patch is enabled?  I'm running Red Hat's 2.4.20-20.9 kernel, but
> couldn't find any epoll patches that would successfully apply to it, so
> I went and grabbed 2.4.21 from kernel.org and that patched cleanly.  Now
> I can't figure out how to enable it in xconfig.  One page said I should
> see it under "Character Devices" but I don't see anything that sounds
> remotely likely under there.  Is there no additional configuration
> needed with this patch?  Any hints?
>
> - Perrin
>
>