> if you have long-lived connections with infrequent traffic This is an interesting case. Is it difficult to recover state in the case of an error in such a c

> if you have long-lived connections with infrequent traffic This is an interesting case. Is it difficult to recover state in the case of an error in such a connection? If not, then you could just use that ability. If so, that seems fragile. Also, this doesn't sound like an inherent limitation of the design approach. Couldn't the linux kernel just improve the performance of that case? > those threads mostly do nothing but consume precious system resources. You mean a small amount of virtual memory?