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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 // Martin Konold, Herrenbergerstr. 14, 72070 Tuebingen, Germany // // Email: konold_at_kde.org // Anybody who's comfortable using KDE should use it. Anyone who wants to tell other people what they should be using can go to work for Microsoft.Received on 1999-01-25 06:21:29