[Mono-devel-list] UDP 40%+ loss

[Sunny]

On Apr 4, 2005 4:39 PM, marcusmonaghan at f2s.com <marcusmonaghan at f2s.com> wrote:
> Some more information:
> 
> It seems my testing was slightly incorrect. I still think there is a problem but
> not with mono. When I did my initial testing I used a program on one machine to
> send 51000 messages on a broadcast group. I then had two programs running, the
> first was the C program and the second was the c# program. When I checked the
> results I checked the output of the C program (the file that was generated) and
> the count of messages generated by the c# program. I accidentally checked the
> input file instead of the output file and thus thought the C program wasn't
> missing any messages. However, after running the test several more times I have
> discovered that the C program is actually missing data, probably more data than
> the c# program. This is to be expected as the C program is doing a lot more
> work. So I think I can safely say that c# and mono on linux is just as bad as C
> :)
> 
> However, the interesting thing is that running the same C program on Unixware
> (and i'm doubly sure) doesn't miss a message. Infact on Unixware it seems to
> buffer the messages automatically. I can see that when the sending process
> finishes the C program is still receiving and keeps receiving for about 1min
> 45secs.
> 
> So I'm off to investigate the differences between Linux (Suse 9.2 Pro) and
> Unixware.
> 
> Thanks Jason for replying!!
> 
> Kind regards,
> Marcus

Hi Marcus,
If I had to deal with it, I'll put all the processing in a separate
thread, or will use async invocation (using the thread pool to save
cycles not creating my own threads) to deal with the input, thus
freeing the receiving loop only to get the data.

Sunny
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