20 Jun
2009
20 Jun
'09
4:16 p.m.
Andrew Burton wrote:
Well, you did want us to test it out and try and break
it, lol.
Just glad I didn't bring it down completely.
Is there a way to adjust the retransmit time depending on user location, or is that
impossible / too complicated?
Or will it be more friendly to everyone once it is increased a little?
Regards,
Andrew B
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk
Cosam and I were talking about it and the right neurons fired in my brain.
Back in December I made a change to the way I measure elapsed time. The
change gave me like a 30% performance improvement because my original
code was so bad, and the new code was counting timer ticks which is
pretty easy. When I made the change I changed all of my units of time
measurement from 100ths of seconds to milliseconds.
Except in the configuration file that defines the timeouts for the BBS. :-)
The result is that I'm retransmitting packets if I don't get an
acknowledgment in 0.4 seconds, not the 4 seconds that I intended. Which
explains why your particular modem connection was driving the
retransmits so hard. Most broad-band users don't have that problem.
It's not bad enough to stop and restart the BBS, but it definitely is
exercising that path in the code pretty hard.
Mike