Which socket engines are supported by InspIRCd?
The following high performance socket engines are supported: • select (All versions, all operating systems) • poll (1.1.23 onwards, all *nix based operating systems) • kqueue (1.0 beta 5 onwards, BSD only) • epoll (1.0 beta 5 onwards, Linux only) • Solaris 10 I/O Completion Ports (1.1.6 onwards, Solaris only) • Windows I/O Completion Ports (1.1.8-1.1.*, Windows only). Support in 1.2 is experimental, and was removed in 2.0 because no windows developer was available to test and debug it. Please note that the performance improvements given by use of kqueue, iocp or epoll are very large performance gains over select(), and should be used wherever they are available. If you do not have any of these socket engines, you should seriously consider upgrading your operating system or kernel before running an IRC server.
