[JDEV] im unified

[Thomas Muldowney]

This disbelief in TCP/IP just doesn't make sense.  I'm very aware of the
scaling issues surrounding TCP, but moving to UDP is almost a fundamental flaw
for an IM system.  IM needs the ability to gurantee delivery, and keep it real
time.  UDP can't intrinsically give this, and therefore, in my opinion, is
flawed.  Wehn you start writing this ability on to UDP your just creating a 
slower system, and then start to mess with that real time nature.  The other
major item of interest is that we're not even limited by the socket count, in
general your going to find RAM and CPU issues before you find conn limits.

I'd be happy to discuss scaling further, as I'm working on scaling the server
to 10million users.

--temas

On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 11:02:05AM +1100, donaldp at mad.scientist.com wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Mark Zamoyta wrote:
> > It'll be a long time before IMUnified releases something of substance that
> > will get implemented by the member companies, so I hope Jabber keeps doing
> > its own thing:  stabalize the system & transports, and make it scalable to
> > millions of users.
> 
> Don't take this the wrong way but the underlying
> communication layer (TCP) will *never* scale aswell as other
> IM architectures. I plan to write a UDP server at the end of
> the year to try and combat this at the end of the year. Not
> sure how successful I will be thou :P. I will post here if
> it works
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Pete
> 
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