[erlang-questions] Heavy duty UDP server performance

[Sean Cribbs]

This difference (batching improves performance) is interesting to me
because it reminds me of a problem we had where many small writes to
gen_tcp slogged performance, whereas batching them to something closer to
MTU or TCP buffer size greatly improved throughput. Calling into the driver
added ~30ms when sending tiny messages, even with Nagle off.

I'm curious, did you try gen_udp with the {active, N} option, or were they
already running in {active, true} mode?

On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 10:23 AM, Max Lapshin <max.lapshin@REDACTED> wrote:

> When we use plain gen_udp to accept 200-400 mbit of incoming MPEG-TS
> traffic in flussonic, we use about 50% of moderate 4 core xeon e3 server.
>
> When we switch to our driver implementation of udp that collapses several
> contiguous udp messages into single big message (it is allowed for mpegts)
> we reduce usage to 15-20%
>
> I can't tell that it is "badly written udp in erlang", just messaging is
> rather expensive.
>
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