Re: design question

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From: Matt Jacobs
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 04:31

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"Jonathan Benedicto" <incorrect@no.server> wrote:

>I'm trying to build a server application, that uses my own custom 
>protocol. Many clients +100 possibly will have connect to this server, 
>and stay connected for hours at a time.
>
>Due to the fact that the server will run on a Celeron processor 
>server, what design do you think I should take ? I had thought that I 
>should use a non-blocking single TServerSocket because +100 threads 
>seemed too much for a Celeron. But what design would you suggest ?

That's not an excessive number of connections. In that situation, I
would probably use Indy. If you find you are having performance
issues, you might want to look at IOCP. But even before that, I would
try to use XML over HTTP via ISAPI/IIS. Why write your own server if
you don't have to?

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