From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,adb9b9207aecb4b3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!newsfeed.kamp.net!news.icp.pl!newsfeed.gazeta.pl!newsfeed.atman.pl!newsfeed.tpinternet.pl!atlantis.news.tpi.pl!news.tpi.pl!not-for-mail From: Wojtek Narczynski Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: epoll Ada binding Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 14:07:17 +0200 Organization: tp.internet - http://www.tpi.pl/ Message-ID: References: <311c6b78.0410181100.76f4e8ab@posting.google.com> <311c6b78.0410182103.110885b7@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: awn208.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: atlantis.news.tpi.pl 1098533268 8080 83.27.73.208 (23 Oct 2004 12:07:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@tpi.pl NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 12:07:48 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity.) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:5659 Date: 2004-10-23T14:07:17+02:00 List-Id: Hello, > Yes, if task switching can be made lightweight enough. I have worked > with software for telephony switches that may have f.x. 50,000 ongoing > calls. Each call is a long chain of "tasks", so all in all the amount > of tasking resources needed can be very large. Wow. Would you be kind enough to give me a hint on how to cope with such enormous amounts of connections? I mean OS, hardware, programming language (if all this is applicable at all..). I'm just (utterly) curious. Regards, Wojtek