Re: on multitasking, tcp4u, etc
> Hey all net addicts,
>
> Has anyone tried using tcp4u to access several urls/ip#'s at the same time?
> When it
> rains this afternoon, i may come inside and try it, and wanted to know if you
> have
> discovered any problems with it.
>
> Right now, i have 8 Eu apps running, as they have for the last 6 weeks,
> collecting data
> from the web. Each app has one url at a time to mine. I have a feeling this is
> eating up
> excessive OS resources that i could be doing other things with (like run even
> more Eu
> code, mostly). What i'd like to do is use *one* Eu application, and have *one*
> "include
> tcp4u.ew", *one* gui display of what it's doing, and have it simultaneously
> access all
> the sites on the list (i can limit the list to the current 8, but i do NOT
> wish to limit the
> connections to one at a time). Any ideas?
>
> I have had a few requests to serve data, and the volume required will mean i
> cannot be
> limited to a single tcp connection, and may mean i cannot be limited to a
> single isp
> either. There are two problems with doing things the way i am now:
>
> 1) OS resource use is up, reboots are more often as a result. This is
> unacceptable,
> especially since i can't seem to get Eu to watch windoze's resource usage, and
> warn
> me a reboot is needed.
>
> 2) linking the running "threads" together is going to get really cumbersome,
> especially
> if i haveto spread the work across both puters, connected to two different
> isps (to get
> what passes as reliability here, and to get up to 20K connection speed total).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kat
Have you tried using asynchronous winsock functions? For my Jabber
client I'm using the asynchronous functions from the version of
winsock.ew included with Hawke's EUServer (SRVSCKIP.EW) and it's
working very well :)
Thomas Parslow (PatRat) ICQ #:26359483
Rat Software
http://www.rat-software.com/
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