[erlang-questions] gen_tcp:send() very expensive

[Rapsey]

There has been a discussion on this very topic a while ago. You should check
the archives.
My only solution to this problem was to cut down on the number of
gen_tcp:send calls. Buffer the data for a bit and then send it all at once.


Sergej


On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 6:59 PM, Mark Geib <mark.geib@REDACTED> wrote:

> I am new to erlang and writing a program to replace an existing Java
> program that accepts multiple network tcp connections, upto about 400,
> and then also excepts 'receive' connections from clients, again in the
> hundrends.. The Java code then re-distributes all the messages from all
> the 'source' connections to all the connected clients.
>
> The Java program is running at about 35% of the machines cpu. When I
> tried my first cut of replacing this with erlang I was surprised to find
> that the erlang program rapidly consumed the machine and quickly stopped
> functioning...
>
> SO, I have been investigating and find that the erlang message passing
> is VERY efficient, but the actual sending of the message to all the
> connected clients is a HUGE cpu consumer. In my test case I am
> generating about 2000 message / second and without sending the tcp
> messages uses about 10% of the test machine. With one client connecting
> the cpu usage increases to nearly 100%.
>
> Is this expected, or is there an option I need to set improve efficiency
> of the network writing. The message sizes vary from 2 - 2000 bytes.
>
> Sorry for the long post.
>
> Mark.
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> Cheyenne Software Engineering
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