note cLive ;-) <p>Well, I've tried switching from epoll to poll explicitly in [http://search.cpan.org/dist/Danga-Socket/lib/Danga/Socket.pm|Danga::Socket], and I'm still getting the load issues, only (obviously) this time strace shows (square brackets removed because I can't work out formatting):</p> <code> poll({fd=10, events=POLLIN}, {fd=9, events=POLLIN}, {fd=11, events=POLLIN|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=12, events=POLLIN|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=15, events=POLLIN|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=14, events=POLLIN|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=18, events=POLLIN|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=13, events=POLLIN|POLLOUT|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL, revents=POLLOUT}, {fd=16, events=POLLIN|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=19, events=POLLIN|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, 10, -1) = 1 poll({fd=10, events=POLLIN}, {fd=9, events=POLLIN}, {fd=11, events=POLLIN|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=12, events=POLLIN|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=15, events=POLLIN|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=14, events=POLLIN|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=18, events=POLLIN|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=13, events=POLLIN|POLLOUT|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL, revents=POLLOUT}, {fd=16, events=POLLIN|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, {fd=19, events=POLLIN|POLLERR|POLLHUP|POLLNVAL}, 10, -1) = 1 </code> <p>etc. Oh funky. Oh well - at least that's one part of the equation marked off...</p> <p>Time to start chasing the SSL options....</p> 668111 668111