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Asked: 2026-05-13T05:51:54+00:00

Where can I find benchmarks on different networking architectures? I am playing with sockets

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Where can I find benchmarks on different networking architectures?

I am playing with sockets / threads / forks and I’d like to know what the best is. I was thinking there has got to be a place where someone has already spelled out all the pros and cons of different architectures for a socket service, listed benchmarks with code that runs.

Ultimately I’d like to run these various configurations with my own code and see which runs best in different circumstances.

Many people I talk to say that I should just use single threaded select. But I see an argument for threads when you’re storing state information inside the thread to keep code simple. What is the trade off mark for writing my own state structure vs using a proven thread architecture.

I’ve also been told forking is bad… but when you need 12000 connections on a machine that cannot raise the open file per process limit, forking is an option! Forking is also a nice option for stability when you’ve got one process that needs restarting, it doesn’t disturb the others.

Sorry, this is one of my longer questions… so many variables are left empty.

Thanks,
Chenz

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    edit: here’s the link I was looking for, which is a whole paper answering your question. http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html

    There are web servers designed along all three models (fork, thread, select). People like to benchmark web servers.

    http://www.lighttpd.net/benchmark

    Libevent has some benchmarks and links to stuff about how to choose a select() vs. threaded model, generally in favour of using the libevent model.
    http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent/

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