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Asked: 2026-05-28T14:00:31+00:00

I’m writing a server for an online game, that should be able to handle

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I’m writing a server for an online game, that should be able to handle 1,000-2,000 clients in the end. The 3 ways I found to do this were basically:

  1. 1 thread/connection (blocking)
  2. Making a list of clients, and loop through them (non-blocking)
  3. Select (Basically a blocking statement for all clients at once with optional timeout?)

In the past I’ve used 1, but as we all know, it doesn’t scale well. 2 is okay, but I have mixed feelings, about one client technically being able to make everyone else freeze. 3 sounds interesting (a bit better than 2), but I’ve heard it’s not suitable for too many connections.
So, what would be the best way to do it (in D)? Are there other options?

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    The usual approach is closest to 3: asynchronous programming with a higher-performance select alternative, such as the poll or epoll system calls on Linux, IOCP on Windows, or higher-level libraries wrapping them. D does not support them directly, but you can find D bindings or 3rd-party D libraries (e.g. Tango) providing support for them.

    Higher-performance servers (e.g. nginx) use one thread/process per CPU core, and use asynchronous event handling within that thread/process.

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