Re: [Straw-devel] network constant values

[Juri Pakaste]

On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 08:19, Jan Alonzo wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-10-25 at 09:07, Juri Pakaste wrote:
> > Skadz pointed out that for him things work a lot better with a
> > POLL_INTERVAL of 2000 and 24 MAX_CONNECTIONS. I would have thought that
> > the UI would suffer if POLL_INTERVAL was that low, but at least here I
> > can't notice a problem. It could be because my computer is rather
> > powerful, or it could be that I just guessed wrong.
> > 
> > How about you others?
> 
> It would probably suffer if straw's using the old parser. But *I think*
> we should set it a bit higher, like 4000, which is more sane, and the
> default for 0.19.x anyways :) Imagine straw checking the poll queue
> every 2 secs even if you set POLL_FREQUENCY to poll every half a day or
> something..

But how does it work on, for example, your computer if you set it to
2000 and the number of pollers higher?

It hardly matters if it checks the empty poll queue every two seconds,
it's not as if it took many milliseconds. However, it does seem to bring
a visible improvement during polling.

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