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From: Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr>
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Subject: Re: pgbench with libevent?
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> Pgbench is managing clients I/Os manually with select or poll. Much of this 
> could be managed by libevent.

Or maybe libuv (used by nodejs?).

From preliminary testing libevent seems not too good at fine grain time 
management which are used for throttling, whereas libuv advertised that it 
is good at it, although what it does is yet to be seen.

Note: libev had no updates in 8 years.

-- 
Fabien.