Re: Libevent not working...

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 7:48 AM, Shahid <shahid <at> vcs.com.pk> wrote:
> I have been using libevent in all my linux networking projects due to its
> features and AIO handling.
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> I have a situation here and need your help.
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> I have developed a PUSH (Comet) server using longpolling over http. I have
> used "libevent 2.0.14" for basic event handling and for http support.

That version's about 5 months old.  The latest is 2.0.19-stable.  I
don't know if any of the bugs fixed since 2.0.14-stable  apply to your
situation or not, but upgrading to the latest stable is usually a good
idea when you're trying to rule out random issues.

> I have tested the server with 250 simultaneous connections and it performed
> well on a local\private network.
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> When I tested it on WAN with just 10 browsers doing the long-polling with
> it, after 20 mins the raising of events from within libevent starts getting
> delayed. The application that generates PUSH Messages for this server is
> generating 220 messages per minute. That do not seem like a huge traffic for
> libevent,  The delay is in raising the event from within libevent and it
> gets to 15 secs sometime.

This sounds pretty weird, yes.  I don' t really have enough
information to track it down from what you said, but I can suggest