Coda File System

Re: CODA clients implement incoming TCP connections from CODA server??

From: Martin Konold <konold_at_alpha.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 12:19:13 +0100 (CET)
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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Received on 1999-01-25 06:21:29