c# Scalable Socket Servers

[.:: - Hades - ::.]

Hi,

1. I am trying to find out something close to the Overlapped IO / Completion
Ports model
provided to me by the Winsock 2 library in C#.

The two ways provided to me to move towarsds scalable servers in C# would be

- Asynchronous Sockets [BeginAccept(), EndAccept() ]
- Non-blocking Socket Methods [Poll / Select()]

I know that the Completion Ports model is the most scalable model, which can
linearly scale
to the number of CPU's you add. But C# doesnt provide me that model.

2. I also have a requirement to port my code to FreeBSD .net Framawork
(Rotor)
or MONO.net with no/least changes to my code.
Based on these two requirements I want to know what is the best model to
choose.

Any ideas / comments ??
_____________
Hades

[Eric Gunnerson [MS]]

I/O completion ports are used internally by the BeginXXX methods in the I/O
classes.

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Hi,

1. I am trying to find out something close to the Overlapped IO / Completion Ports model
provided to me by the Winsock 2 library in C#.

The two ways provided to me to move towarsds scalable servers in C# would be
- Asynchronous Sockets [BeginAccept(), EndAccept() ]
- Non-blocking Socket Methods [Poll / Select()]

I know that the Completion Ports model is the most scalable model, which can linearly scale
to the number of CPU's you add. But C# doesnt provide me that model.

2. I also have a requirement to port my code to FreeBSD .net Framawork
(Rotor)
or MONO.net with no/least changes to my code.
Based on these two requirements I want to know what is the best model to
choose.

Any ideas / comments ??
_____________
Hades