[Sis-SCPS-INTEREST] New SCPS RI Release on Open Channel Software...

[Otto Solares]

On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 01:06:22PM -0500, Feighery, Patrick D. wrote:
> <snip>
> 	2)  While we are on the subject of rate control and CPU
> resources.  As I'm sure you all are aware of, the SCPS process tends to
> be a CPU hog - to put it mildly...  This was intentional, because the
> SCPS RI constantly polls the internal sockets to read packets from the
> kernel as soon as possible. This unfortunately means the SCPS reference
> implementation will consume all available CPU resources that it can.

It is possible to change this behavior to use select() or newer
mechanisms like eventpoll (linux) and kqueue/kevent (BSDs) ??

That will make a big difference in CPU utilization.

-otto