Epoll vs Select vs Poll: How the Linux Kernel Actually Handles 100k Concurrent Connections

In 1999, Dan Kegel published his classic paper on "The C10K Problem," posing a simple question: how do you design a web server capable of handling 10,000 concurrent client connections on a single machine? At the time, the standard approach was process-per-connection or thread-per-connection. We...

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