Re: Performance of many concurrent delay() calls

[Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>]

* Olivier Henley:

> Does calling [loop and delay(1.0)] for each of many thousand connected
> clients (gnoga/simple components) is a huge performance hit or not?

Periodic wakeups are considered bad for battery life and also
negatively impact density of VMs (and containers).

> If so, what is the recommended way to implement a periodic, every sec,
> procedure that has to run for every clients; instantiate a single main
> task looping, delay(1.0), over all connections data and call the
> wanted procedure... probably?

I think this depends on what has to be done every second, and to what
degree these actions depend on other resources.