[Spread-users] Optimal message size

[Yair Amir]

Hi,

You should use the maximal message size (somewhere around 100KBytes).
The more you put into one message, the better Spread will utilize the network.

How big are your objects?

	:) Yair.

Sean Chittenden wrote:

> How well does spread work for large objects?  I'm wondering whether or
> not I should have the spread session managers open up a TCP port for
> large blobs of data.  Has anyone done any benchmarking to figure out at
> what size a piece of data should be sent over the wire via TCP vs
> spread/UDP?  I'd think that latency, throughput of the network, and the
> size of the messages will make a difference, but am wondering if there's
> decent formulaic way of having this dynamically determined based off of
> the parameters in the spread daemon.  Any thoughts?
> 
>         -sc
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