[Mono-list] threads and Async Socket methods

[Scott Manley]

So has there been any progress on this issue? I'm running mono on Fedora 
core (2.6.x kernel) and I find that after 25 or more connections that my 
BeginRecieve calls occupy all the threads in the pool and the server 
grinds to a halt (although, I've found out that sending random ping 
messages does help to lubricate the recievers.....).

It works fine on .Net of course, 200+ connections and no blocking, but 
on mono we're outta luck.

I'll probably just write an alternative code path for mono - at least 
for the moment.

Scott Manley


>El vie, 07-05-2004 a las 20:59, P Oscar Boykin escribió:
>>/ Thanks for pointing out this article.
>/>/ 
>/>/ This appears to be my problem:
>/>/ 
>/>/ When I have enough sockets waiting on a BeginReceive, I cannot do
>/>/ any other Async method.  I guess the worker queue gets filled with the
>/>/ BeginReceive calls, and then BeginSend calls cannot get through.
>/>/ 
>/>/ For our work, the limit of 25 ThreadPool threads waiting on tcp sockets
>/>/ is just not going to work.
>/>/ 
>/>/ It seems like there are two options here:
>/>/ 
>/>/ 1) Avoid Async socket operations for systems that need to scale to large
>/>/ numbers.  Prefer Select I guess.
>/>/ 
>/>/ 2) Reimplement the Async sockets to make sure they always use native
>/>/ operating system asynchronous facilities.
>/>/ 
>/>/ I think you already said that in the 2.6 kernel, the Async Sockets use
>/>/ the posix aio interface.
>/>/ 
>/>/ It seems like in linux 2.4 there is a means to get the kernel to send
>/>/ signals a socket is ready for IO:
>/>/ 
>/>/ http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html#nb.sigio
>/>/ 
>/>/ What would be the issues with doing a 2.4 implementation using the
>/>/ signals mechanism?
>/
>The native AIO interface support, apart from having some weird bugs and
>being disabled now, cannot be used always. Why? aio_read/write do not
>support passing extra sockets options.
>
>I tested it under 2.4 and 2.6 kernel and it works (apart from the weird
>bugs) fine.
>
>I will reenable it once the bug is fixed.
>
>Anyway, I suggest to use Select when you have such a big number of
>sockets doing asynchronous operations.
>
>-Gonzalo
>