[PD] pd and tcp: what to do against crashes?

[Martin Peach]

Roman Haefeli wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 00:45 +0100, Roman Haefeli wrote:
>> how do i know, when the [tcpserver] socket is ready to transmit another
>> byte? do i have to nag it every ms with a message? if i go the
>> BYTE-AT-A-TIME route, the interval would even need to be slower, if
>> higher troughput should be achieved. is there any strategy to avoid too
>> much overhead?
>>
> 
> having thought another two minutes about it, i think i can answer my own
> question: i don't need to drip every byte with an interval, but just
> fill the buffer completely in zero logical time, then i wait a few
> miliseconds, then i do it again. depending on the wait time, the
> connection bandwidth and the buffersize, the buffer will be filled again
> before it completely got empty. this way the maximum available bandwidth
> can be exploited, when necessary, without having to penetrate
> [tcpserver] too much with 'buffer still full?' messages.
> 

You could also try setting the buffer size the same as the message 
length for each outgoing message. Then the buffer wouldn't consume 
thousands of bytes before it stopped.


> martin, would you mind implementing similar changes to [tcpclient] as
> well?
> 
> 

I'll do that today if I have time.

Martin