[Mono-devel-list] Remoting performance

[Lluis Sanchez]

This runs in half a second in my box, so something must be wrong in your
setup.

On dt, 2005-04-05 at 21:02 +0100, Tim Day wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 12:18 +0200, Lluis Sanchez wrote:
> > On my Pentium M 1600Mhz, I'm getting 1850 calls/seq with Mono 1.0.5,
> > and 4050 calls/seq with Mono 1.1.5.
> 
> Now that sounds more like it.
> 
> I've just upgraded to 1.0.5 (the version currently in Debian Sid) on an
> XP1600+, but I still only get ~12 calls per second with the attached
> (very simple) code.
>  Build and run with:
>   mcs -t:library -out:thing.dll thing.cs
>   mcs -r:thing.dll -r:System.Runtime.Remoting server.cs
>   mcs -r:thing.dll -r:System.Runtime.Remoting client.cs
>   xterm -e mono server.exe &
>   time mono client.exe
> to time 200 calls.
> It takes ~16seconds realtime on my machine, but with only 0.467s user
> and 0.037s system time it's basically sitting there mostly doing nothing
> (top shows 99% idle)!
> 
> If you can't see anything wrong with the code (which is essentially
> straight out of the OReilly "Programming C#" book) then I suspect
> something bogus about the Debian setup.  The mono system itself seems to
> be zippy enough: I can sum a billion ints in a couple of seconds.
> For what it's worth, mono --profile on the client.exe shows most of the
> 16 seconds runtime is made up of 2800 calls at ~5.6ms each to
> System.Net.Sockets.Socket::Receive_internal
> Any ideas ?
> 
> Puzzled
> Tim
>