[sldev] UDP to TCP/HTTP - performance issues?

[Erik Anderson]

This sounds suspiciously like they are using COMET.  Is the entire world
switching over to web browser-like communications or something?

On 11/14/07, Argent Stonecutter <secret.argent at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 14-Nov-2007, at 11:17, John Hurliman wrote:
> > Actually a single persistent connection is held open from the
> > client->server for the purpose of receiving server-initiated event
> > messages,
>
> I hope the server only uses this TCP connection for non-real-time
> events, or else a single lost packet will stall you until TCP
> retransmission kicks in.
>
> > and new connections are opened from client->server which the server
> > replies to and then the connection is closed.
>
> Ick. that needs to be fixed. That completely maximizes the overhead
> of TCP.
>
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