Zed isn't the only one who has found epoll to be slower than poll. The author of libev basically says the same thing. See http://pod.tst.eu/http://cvs.schmorp.d

Zed isn't the only one who has found epoll to be slower than poll. The author of libev basically says the same thing. See http://pod.tst.eu/http://cvs.schmorp.de/libev/ev.pod http://pod.tst.eu/http://cvs.schmorp.de/libev/ev.pod and search for EVBACKEND_EPOLL. I wonder how kqueue behaves compares to poll and epoll. Kqueue has a less stupid interface because it allows you to perform batch updates with a single syscall.