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Re: Multythreading TIdTcpClient on workstation OS

Subject:Re: Multythreading TIdTcpClient on workstation OS
Posted by:"Remy Lebeau (TeamB)" (no.spam@no.spam.com)
Date:Fri, 29 Dec 2006 20:33:53

"Dejan Petrovic" <dejanbng@removeThis.ztbclan.com> wrote in message
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> wondering what indy and XP Home edition will do when I trying
> to open let's say 1000 connections in time :

If you exceed the OS's limits, you will get exceptions raised by Indy
when sockets cannot be created/opened anymore.

> 1. Open first 40 connections and raise error on all other threads
which try
> to open more connections ?

Yes.

> 2. windows internaly put on wait rest 960 connections till first one
is
> closed and process one by one ?

No.

> 3. allow all 1000 to send ?

Very doubtful.

> Actually I don't know do I shall :

A pool sounds like a good idea.  That way, you are limited to what is
actually available, and your code can throttle itself according to
availability.

> sending pseudo code is simple and shall be fast :

You may also consider using UDP instead of TCP, since there are no
connections in UDP.


Gambit

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