Simple TCP proxy

[Barry]




> On 30 Jul 2022, at 20:33, Morten W. Petersen <morphex at gmail.com> wrote:
> I thought it was a bit much.
> 
> I just did a bit more testing, and saw that the throughput of wget through
> regular lighttpd was 1,3 GB/s, while through STP it was 122 MB/s, and using
> quite a bit of CPU.
> 
> Then I increased the buffer size 8-fold for reading and writing in run.py,
> and the CPU usage went way down, and the transfer speed went up to 449 MB/s.

You are trading latency for through put.

> 
> So it would require well more than a gigabit network interface to max out
> STP throughput; CPU usage was around 30-40% max, on one processor core.

With how many connections?

> 
> There is good enough, and then there's general practice and/or what is
> regarded as an elegant solution.  I'm looking for good enough, and in the
> process I don't mind pushing the envelope on Python threading.

You never did answer my query on why a large backlog is not good enough.
Why do you need this program at all?

Barry
> 
> -Morten
> 
> On Sat, Jul 30, 2022 at 12:59 PM Roel Schroeven <roel at roelschroeven.net>
> wrote:
> 
>> Morten W. Petersen schreef op 29/07/2022 om 22:59:
>>> OK, sounds like sunshine is getting the best of you.
>> It has to be said: that is uncalled for.
>> 
>> Chris gave you good advice, with the best of intentions. Sometimes we
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>> reason to take it off on the messenger.
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