[erlang-questions] Gen_UDP Packet Loss

[Jesper Louis Andersen]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 9:00 PM, Lee Sylvester <lee.sylvester@REDACTED>
wrote:

> So, I set a bunch of flags to update the buffer size:
>
> {:buffer, 1024*1024*16}, {:recbuf, 1024*1024*16}, {:sndbuf, 1024*1024*16}
>
> Giving quite a hefty amount of buffer space.  When I connect 5 clients to
> the server with an echo peer, and send about 1000 packets from each with
> 1500 bytes per packet, only 50% of the packets even get registered in the
> message stack.  I’ve conferred with other Erlang devs and have heard their
> similar servers can support around 1000 such clients.  Why, then, do I get
> this issue?  :-(
>
> Any idea’s or help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Lee
>

Start by verifying your kernel is not dropping the packets at its end. If
your kernels buffer is full, then things will not work.


-- 
J.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/attachments/20140730/04e13799/attachment.htm>