On 25 Jan 1999, Magnus Ahltorp wrote:
> Among other things, if TCP had been used, the servers would have to
> have a connection open (with a corresponding fd) to each client. Since
> UDP is used, the servers demultiplexes the requests themselves.
The number of fd should not be a problem anymore on modern unix systems.
How does the choice udp/tcp affect performance (latency and bandwidth)?
Regards,
-- martin
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