Does that mean you intend to solve the problem by forking thousands of children? If so, I don't think that will result in much of an improvement! Have you tried IO::Poll? Rumor has it that it's capable of better performance than good ol' select().
-sam
Comment on Re: Re: Re: Passing a socket to a parent
No, not at all... my thought was to divorce the connection process to one child, so I don't slow down my packet handling with timing out socket connects and the like...
I haven't tried IO::Poll, I will take a look at it... though my problem isn't really with IO::Select, more so with the overhead of making socket connections...