Linux networking application development

My company sells a commercial Linux application binary, available for download here: [login to view URL] This server application typically accepts TCP connections from 100's of simultaneous clients using a proprietary (but open-source) protocol. In this project, I want to scale up the number of simultaneous persistent TCP sessions from 100's to 1000's. Right now, I believe the application's thread pool for processing incoming connections is too small to deal with high load. In our Windows-flavored version, we used I/O Completion Ports (IOCP) to achieve very good results; am not sure what advanced techniques are available to me in standard 2.6.x Linux kernels. The developer needed for this project must have a strong understanding of NPTL sockets and TCP-intensive applications. The developer must also know Linux servers pretty well, to help with any necessary TCP tuning required of the application server. I will provide both the source code to our current Linux build, documentation of our proprietary protocol, and a Windows "test client" application to simulate 1000's of connections. Please let me know if you have any questions!

## Deliverables

1) Complete and fully-functional working program(s) in executable form as well as complete source code of all work done.

2) Deliverables must be in ready-to-run condition, as follows? (depending on the nature? of the deliverables):

a)? For web sites or? other server-side deliverables intended to only ever exist in one place in the Buyer's environment--Deliverables must be installed by the Seller in ready-to-run condition in the Buyer's environment.

b) For all others including desktop software or software the buyer intends to distribute: A software? installation package that will install the software in ready-to-run condition on the platform(s) specified in this bid request.

3) All deliverables will be considered "work made for hire" under U.S. Copyright law. Buyer will receive exclusive and complete copyrights to all work purchased. (No GPL, GNU, 3rd party components, etc. unless all copyright ramifications are explained AND AGREED TO by the buyer on the site per the coder's Seller Legal Agreement).

## Platform

Linux, 2.6.x, statically compile against glibc

Programación en C Linux

Nº del proyecto: #3148791

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