[SR-Users] udp vs. tcp receiver processes

Juha Heinanen jh at tutpro.com
Thu Aug 4 20:42:52 CEST 2011


Henning Westerholt writes:

> this is the result of the different server design for UDP and TCP. For
> TCP  
> AFAIK one main dispatcher accepts all the connections and then
> distribute them 
> to the workers. For UDP the workers listen directly on the (one) network 
> socket, so there is no dispatcher. It looks like a waste of resources,
> but its from a implementation POV much easier.

in that case, it would make sense to be able to define per udp listen
address, how many processes are spawned, since seldom all addresses are
equally busy.

-- juha



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