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allsorts46

Throughput II

Jun 30, 2008 04:07

Today was a long and tiring day, which fits in pretty well with the rest of the week. On Wednesday, we ran the new system at work, which went pretty well in the afternoon. When it got to five, we'd normally switch back to the old system for the evening shift, but we'd had no troubles all day, so called Darius to ask if he'd like to run it for the ( Read more... )

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Feels like I was there tentuxius June 30 2008, 16:04:39 UTC

When I read this, I think "I know this"

anonymous July 1 2008, 00:25:14 UTC

If you're implementing a 'custom protocol' you're probably going the wrong way around it (especially as you little experience in this area) and you're really asking for trouble trying to build your own layer on top of UDP. TCP has already done the hard work for you. The value returned by your Socket.Send is the guaranteed number of bytes sent ( ... )

allsorts46 July 1 2008, 00:56:25 UTC

Indeed, I chose TCP in the first place because having a reliable stream of bytes seemed a good place to start. However, I've not been able to explain what's going on with this particular connection between two stores - all I know is that connection is dropped briefly but frequently, and I've not seen anything yet be able to handle it gracefully. The ISP refuses to do anything about it and we're not able to change, which is a long story, but basically we're stuck with it ( ... )