Hi,
I'm doing some tests to evaluate the performance of my application server.
I'm using a tcp socket server on a single thread (dedicated, I don't use
the main thread), connected with 500 clients installed on different
machines (no clients on the server machine).
What I want to evaluate is the ability of the server to process packets.
For this I configured each client to send about 1000 packets per second
of 4 bytes (about 32Kbps).
I'm using a gigabit switch, so I don't have any bandwidth problem.
In a first test, each client transmits and the server only receives.
In this case, the CPU of the server exceeds 50% (on my dual core
machine), some clients will stop transmitting (WSAEWOULDBLOCK) and if I
analyze the traffic with wireshark, I noticed that the window size of
some of the tcp connections goes to zero.
Letting go of the transmission for several hours, the clients contended
the server. As some clients stopped, the others begin to transmit.
For make worse server performance I also introduced a loop inside the
receive routine like this:
for i: = 0 to 200000 do
Sleep (0);
I believe that the behavior of the server is correct.
In a second test, however, have meant that the server performs the
routing of packets it receives to other clients.
In this case, I make sure that only few clients transmit data (max 6),
while all receive.
The result I get in this scenario is that clients that stops to trasmit,
will not start more.
The behavior gets worse if data are routed also to the socket from which
the data are coming (in this case the CPU is much higher).
The code I use on OnDataAvailable is:
for i: = 0 to fSS.ClientCount-1 do
begin
/ / If fSS.Client [i] <> TWSocketClient (Sender) then
begin
if fSS.Client [i]. State = wsConnected then
fSS.Client [i]. Send (fRxData, lSize)
end;
end;
I would figure out what the best way to route packets.
What I like is that even in this case, clients contended the server
without stalling.
Thanks for the help
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Ing. Emanuele Bizzarri
Software Development Department
e-works s.r.l.
41011 - Campogalliano - Modena - Italy
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