TCP/IP - Solving the C10K with the thread per client approach

Question

After reading the famous C10k article and searching on the web about how things have evolved since it was written, I would like to know if it would be possible for a today\'

Answer 1

The usual approaches for servers are either: (a) thread per connection (often with a thread pool), or (b) single threaded with asynchronous IO (often with epoll or kqueue). My thinking is that some elements of these approaches can, and often should, be combined to use asynchronous IO (with epoll or kqueue) and then hand off the connection request to a thread pool to process. This approach would combine the efficient dispatch of asynchronous IO with the parallelism provided by the thread pool.

I have written such a server for fun (in C++) that uses epoll on Linux and kqueue on FreeBSD and OSX along with a thread pool. I just need to run it through its paces for heavy testing, do some code cleanup, and then toss it out on github (hopefully soon).