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Ayse
Ayse

Reputation: 2754

Using asynchronous sockets for server handling multiple clients

I have developed a single server multiple client udp application using multithreading. I want to switch to a single processor system now so multithreading will no more help me :(

Now I want to implement the server using asynchronous sockets so that it may be able to handle multiple clients at a time.

Will this approach work fine? Is it correct to use asynchronous socket if you want to handle multiple clients using one single server? Is using asynchronous socket a better approach than using threads for handling multiple clients?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 441

Answers (2)

Paul
Paul

Reputation: 1328

I would recommend you to take a look at libevent: http://www.libevent.org/ it provides all necessary functions to organize asynchronous servers.

Upvotes: 2

Joe
Joe

Reputation: 7798

You could multithread the server just as well as make it asynchronous. Unless you have a LOT (100s/1000s) of connections you probably won't notice the performance difference of any of the approaches to multiplexing your connections. select/poll, threading, aio will all perform about the same for a low number of connections. aio is harder to implement solidly though.

Upvotes: 1

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