[Udpcast] udpcast scalability?

[Alain Knaff]

On Friday 25 February 2005 04:22, George Coulouris wrote:
> George Coulouris wrote:
> > Ramon Bastiaans wrote:
> > [snip]
> >
> >> Try adding the --nosync argument to your udp-receiver's, and see what
> >> happens.
>
> Sadly, --nosync didn't seem to have any effect. There is a strangeness I
> 've noticed in the log about halfway through the transfer:
>
> ...
> bytes= 10 540 294 128 re-xmits=2147464 ( 29.6%) slice=0112  73 709 551
> 615 -  59
> bytes= 10 540 457 200 re-xmits=2147484 (-29.-6%) slice=0112  73 709 551
> 615 -  59
> ...
> bytes= 19 628 001 280 re-xmits=3351819 ( -6.-9%) slice=0112  73 709 551
> 615 -  31
> Transfer complete.
> Disconnecting #0
> ...

This was due to a confusion between signed and unsigned
variables. However, the only consequence of the bug was the messed-up
display.

It is fixed in today's version (20050226)

Regards,

Alain