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If you look really closely at the noisy images, you can see little blotches that vaguely resemble the things the computer recognized them as.

Show me your application and I'll tell you where it's either calling select() or is limiting connections to keep itself from locking up the OS.

So the basic take away seems to be: don't bother using async patterns for single, low latency connections to a server on your local network. For anything where you're dealing with …

Also analogous to cooperative multitasking as used in the modern era in high performance server applications. To great success, I might add.

Additionally, a TCP connection is essentially an operating system resource; you need to set aside a port and space for a send and receive buffer. It might seem fine for a client to…

Solutions that pull the TCP stack out of the kernel perform so much better because they're bypassing all the internal bureaucracy that the kernel otherwise performs to make it as e…

Just don't try to do TCP over tapes on a station wagon.

The primary advantage GridFTP has over simply using tar+netcat for performance is that GridFTP can multiplex transfers over multiple TCP connections. This is helpful as long as the…