[zeromq-dev] Delivery time

2012-10-05 Thread Marco Trapanese
Hello, I have several systems, with different hardware, o.s., network, etc... which runs some applications based upon zmq. They all have a router/dealer configuration. I send very small packets ( 50 byte) every few seconds. In some systems there is a real network: just two machines directly

Re: [zeromq-dev] Delivery time

2012-10-05 Thread Chuck Remes
On Oct 5, 2012, at 5:30 AM, Marco Trapanese wrote: Hello, I have several systems, with different hardware, o.s., network, etc... which runs some applications based upon zmq. They all have a router/dealer configuration. I send very small packets ( 50 byte) every few seconds. In some

Re: [zeromq-dev] Delivery time

2012-10-05 Thread Marco Trapanese
Il 05/10/2012 14:17, Chuck Remes ha scritto: You should run the local_lat and remote_lat example programs that are part of the library. They will measure round-trip latency between two processes (which can be on the same machine or across a LAN or WAN). That should give you a baseline for

Re: [zeromq-dev] Delivery time

2012-10-05 Thread Pieter Hintjens
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Marco Trapanese marcotrapan...@gmail.com wrote: They all have a router/dealer configuration. I send very small packets ( 50 byte) every few seconds. You might find latency improving if you send messages more often, e.g. every 100msec since it'll keep things

Re: [zeromq-dev] Delivery time

2012-10-05 Thread Marco Trapanese
Il 05/10/2012 15:44, Pieter Hintjens ha scritto: You might find latency improving if you send messages more often, e.g. every 100msec since it'll keep things hot. Interesting. It's not a critical application, but the goal is to execute a command as soon as possible after receiving a packet.