[Twisted-Python] robust listenUDP with N clients?

marc bohlen marcbohlen at acm.org
Mon Dec 4 13:32:29 EST 2006


Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
> On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 12:05:29 -0500, marc bohlen <marcbohlen at acm.org> 
> wrote:
>> Jean-Paul Calderone wrote:
>>> On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:28:57 -0500, marc bohlen <marcbohlen at acm.org> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> hi folks
>>>>
>>>> I am new to twisted and new to server programming. Nonetheless, I 
>>>> would like to build a robust client-server looping mechanism in 
>>>> which a server would listen for input from N clients, say 10, and 
>>>> react immediately when it receives data from them. I have a sample 
>>>> (see below) that appears to run well, but am not sure if it will 
>>>> scale under real network load and larger N.
>>>> (I am parsing the input data received from the clients and using it 
>>>> to calculate a fibonnaci series, just for testing. The reactor can 
>>>> be stopped with keyboard input (I am on a win32 platform)).
>>>>
>>>> If you see any problems with this approach, please let me know !
>>>> Thanks, marc
>>>
>>> You probably need to be more specific to get many useful responses.  
>>> What
>>> do you expect N to go to?  Why do you use multiple ports?  Why are you
>>> using UDP?  What do you mean by "robust"?  What does the Fibonnaci 
>>> calculation
>>> have to do with the application?  Is the keyboard input handling code
>>> relevant or just part of the example?  Is win32 your development 
>>> platform
>>> or your deployment platform or both?
>>>
>>> Jean-Paul
>>
>> Hi Jean-Paul
>>
>> I would want N no larger than 30.
>
> 30 is quite small.  There should be no performance issues related to
> the network layer.
>
>> I am testing only on localhost and have N ports instead of N 
>> computers for now.
>
> Okay.  So ultimately it will be 1 port communicating with N computers,
> instead of the current N ports all communicating with 1 computer?
>> Fibonnaci calculation: just a cpu cycle eating app for testing, will 
>> change.
>
> I don't think your original example realistically represented CPU load.
> It seems more likely that you will have some work to do in response to
> each request, which corresponds to datagramReceived
>
>> Keyboard handling is important.
>> Win32 is development and deployment platform.
>
> Win32 is pretty crummy.  I have no idea how well anything will work on
> it.  I generally assume that it won't, at all.
>
>> UDP choice: I would like the faster of the two protocols (UDP vs 
>> TCP), although TCP has congestion
>> control. Is TCP the better choice here?
>
> If that's the primary metric, TCP is a better choice.

Then I'll use TCP.

>
>> Robust: will it work even under heavy network load
>
> If _that's_ the primary metric, TCP is still a better choice. :)
>
> Jean-Paul


Yes, that is correct,  N computers, one port.
If 30 is a small number, what would be a large one; what is the upper limit?
I'll use TCP then (and move the code over to a suse box :) )

thanks for the tips,
marc






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