[ENet-discuss] 4 seconds stalls.. congestion problem?

[Lee Salzman]

No, the point is to get all available packets in this frame and not 
stall, i.e. it is polling. You wouldn't use a non-zero timeout in a 
game's client loop like that.

Lee

On 11/21/2010 02:31 PM, Mark Palkow wrote:
> Couldn't the problem be
>
> while( enet_host_service (client,&  event, 0)>  0 )
>
> because it takes all the CPU (100%)?
> shouldn't it be something like:
>
> while( enet_host_service (client,&  event, 10)>  0 )
>
> so that the CPU gets a chance to handle other task like the network stack?
> regards Mark
>
>
>
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> Von: enet-discuss-bounces at cubik.org [mailto:enet-discuss-bounces at cubik.org]
> Im Auftrag von Chris Meub
> Gesendet: Sonntag, 21. November 2010 08:39
> An: Discussion of the ENet library
> Betreff: Re: [ENet-discuss] 4 seconds stalls.. congestion problem?
>
> I am doing this every 1/60th second:
>
>     while( enet_host_service (client,&  event, 0)>  0 )
>     {
>           switch (event.type)
>           {
> 		case ENET_EVENT_TYPE_RECEIVE:
> 		        // ( handle packet )
> 			enet_packet_destroy (event.packet);
> 			break;
>                  case ENET_EVENT_TYPE_DISCONNECT: // (handle disconnect here)
> 	 }
>     }
>
> As I understand it that will process all available events.
>
> On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 9:47 PM, Lee Salzman<lsalzman at gmail.com>  wrote:
>    
>> In the client, make sure you repeatedly call enet_host_service() until it
>> returns no events, otherwise it may possibly not service the network at
>>      
> all
>    
>> if it gets backlogged.
>>
>> Lee
>>
>> On 11/20/2010 07:41 PM, Chris Meub wrote:
>>
>> It does *not* exhibit the stalling behavior when I run on LAN or on
>> the same machine.
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 6:44 PM, Jay Sprenkle<jsprenkle at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>
>> Have you tried running both on the same physical machine, or on two
>>      
> machines
>    
>> within your control?
>> Perhaps it's caused by comcast equipment.
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 6:52 PM, Chris Meub<chrismeub at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>
>> The server is hosted on a dedicated hosting provider M5, but I have
>> also tried putting the server on a friend's home Ubuntu server with
>> the exact same intermittent stalling behavior.
>>
>> The client is under a router and cable modem with comcast
>>
>> pinging the server averages 49ms at the moment, 32ms from another
>> network ive tested
>>
>>
>>      
>

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