Re^7: Single server-multiple clients

Have you considered making your protocol just HTTP?

Also, have you considered that file I/O will be so slow that it will deliver data at the same speed whether one reading machine is reading from it or two? The two machines will each get (at best) half the speed.

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Re^8: Single server-multiple clients by hari9 (Sexton) on Jul 20, 2010 at 20:38 UTC
the prototype I'm using is 'tcp' since its within a group of systems in computer lab. Is there a efficient method to file i/o other than Open(fileh,">filename") I'm not quiet familiar about an alternate.	[reply]
Re^9: Single server-multiple clients by Corion (Patriarch) on Jul 20, 2010 at 20:41 UTC
No, there is no more efficient method, but as long as all machines use the same hardware device, you won't see any speedup by making two or more machines read from the same drive. And the speed of calculating an MD5 is essentially bound by the speed you can read the data from disk. And a single process can max out your harddisk already, unless you have an SSD drive.	[reply]
Re^10: Single server-multiple clients by hari9 (Sexton) on Jul 20, 2010 at 21:04 UTC
Interesting, I just got to know that. Will add to my knowledge book. thanks a million for the helpcorion and BrowserUK.	[reply]