Check out "The C10K Problem" (http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html) for a high level discussion of some techniques for high performance

Check out "The C10K Problem" (http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html) for a high level discussion of some techniques for high performance servers. For basic info on Epoll: http://www.devshed.com/c/a/BrainDump/Linux-Files-and-the-Event-Poll-Interface/ http://www.devshed.com/c/a/BrainDump/Linux-Files-and-the-Eve... epoll socket tutorial: http://kovyrin.net/2006/04/13/epoll-asynchronous-network-programming/ http://kovyrin.net/2006/04/13/epoll-asynchronous-network-pro... Or kqueue if your OS supports it: http://wiki.netbsd.org/tutorials/kqueue_tutorial/ http://wiki.netbsd.org/tutorials/kqueue_tutorial/ Lower level details on level triggered vs edge triggered interrupts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrupt#Level-triggered http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrupt#Level-triggered Overview of the thundering herd problem: http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/linux-scalability/reports/accept.html http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/linux-scalability/reports...