Re: Distributed Objects over SLIP

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From: Timothy J. Wood
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 05:42

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zazula@pri.com (Ralph Zazula) writes:

>In article <1992Oct15.205136.27472@mcs.anl.gov>  writes:
>> In article <1992Oct15.110731.3848@arizona.edu> paul@nextus.tucson.az.us (Paul  
>> Tognato-Haddad) writes:
>> > Simple question is it possible to run an app that uses Distributed Objects  
>> > over a SLIP conection?
>> 
>> Yes, but the performance is really bad.  There appears to be a lot of  
>protocol  
>> going on that SLIP deals badly with. My simple benchmark involved passing 108  
>> byte packets between a client and server, and timing the overall throughput. 
>> 
>> With the client and server on the same machine, I got a throughput of about  
>> 5KBytes/sec. Over the SLIP line, I got 27 BYTES/sec (!). There was an average  
>> of 4 seconds per packet. 
>> 
>Yes, but one might point out that 27Bytes/s is *infinitely* better than  
>0Bytes/s.  So, please do post the details for those us who want this  
>unmeasurable performance improvement.


  Are you using the NXProxy method setProtocolForProxy:?  This should make
things faster.

--
Tim Wood
The Omni Group
bungi@omnigroup.com

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