Why exactly does ePoll scale better then Poll?

The poll system call needs to copy your list of file descriptors to the kernel each time. This happens only once with epoll_ctl but not every time you call epoll_wait .

While Damon's reason is correct for the unusual case where you never block on a socket, in typical real-world programs, the reason is completely different. A typical program looks like this.

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