I think being I/O bound is orthogonal to whether you need kqueue or epoll. You could be I/O bound on a small number of simultaneous sockets, in which case sele

I think being I/O bound is orthogonal to whether you need kqueue or epoll. You could be I/O bound on a small number of simultaneous sockets, in which case select() would work fine. Or you can be I/O bound on a lot, in which case select() would take too much CPU by scanning the descriptor table repeatedly. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/970979/what-are-the-differences-between-poll-and-select http://stackoverflow.com/questions/970979/what-are-the-diffe...