[Twisted-Python] epoll reactor

[Jp Calderone]

On Tue, 24 May 2005 23:13:51 +1000, James Bunton <james at delx.cjb.net> wrote:
>On 23/05/2005, at 11:23 PM, Jp Calderone wrote:
>>On Mon, 23 May 2005 22:08:43 +1000, James Bunton <james at delx.cjb.net> 
>>wrote:
>>>Well, I got it to work properly now :)
>>>
>>>http://msn-transport.jabberstudio.org/tarballs/epoll-0.2.tar.gz
>>>
>>>It's now uses the epoll edge triggered flag, and doesn't chew 99% CPU like 
>>>the first one accidentally did.
>>
>>  Neat.  There has been a level-triggered epoll reactor in my sandbox for 
>>some time, but I was never able to get the edge triggered version to work.
>>
>>  Hmm, running the Twisted test suite with this version doesn't do too well 
>>either.  A few tests fail here and there before it gets totally wedged on 
>>twisted.test.test_pb.ConnectionTestCase.testIdentityConnector.
>>
>>  You can try this yourself by adding an entry for this reactor to the 
>>dictionary at the top of twisted.application.app, then running "trial -R -r 
>>epoll twisted", where "epoll" is the key you add to that dict.
>>
>>  Jp
>
>A lot of these seem to fail when using the 'poll' and reactor also.
>Broken tests or two broken reactors do you think?
>
>But there are a few there I can fix. Thanks for the pointer :)

The poll reactor seems to be doing okay on the buildslave:

  http://twistedmatrix.com/buildbot/

Maybe it's skipping some tests that are running on your machine?

Jp