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epoll: must I use multi-threading

I’ve got a basic knowledge from here about epoll. I know that epoll can monitor multiple FDs and handle them. My question is: can a heavy event block the server so I must use multithreading? For example, the epoll of a server is monitoring 2 sockets A and B. Now A starts to send lot of messages to the s…