[issue16873] increase epoll.poll() maxevents default value, and improve documentation

[Richard Oudkerk]

Richard Oudkerk added the comment:

Is this actually a problem?

If events are arranged in a queue and epoll_wait() just removes the oldest events (up to maxevents) from that queue then there would be no problem with using a small value for maxevents.

I don't *know* if that is the case, but I would consider epoll to be broken if it does not do something similar.

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