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Subject: Re: Slow Client
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:22:17 -0700
From: Bill Cheng <william@bourbon.usc.edu>

Someone wrote:

  > For the test case
  > 
  > ./server -m 12345
  >          (then immediately run the following in one or multiple
  >                    windows, this should start a long transfer)
  >                        ./client get -m localhost:15096 /home/scf-22/csci551b/public/cali.wav
  >                        (press <Cntrl>c in the server window and see what happens)
  >                        (if transfers ends, it's good)
  >                        (if transfers does not end within 2 seconds,
  >                            take at least 2 points, off; the longer the wait,
  >                            the more points to take off)
  > 
  > In my case the client is running very slowly . So the server and
  > client are asynchronously. For instance if server sends 100 bytes
  > then client is receiving 50 bytes and so on. So at the time when
  > server gets interrupt  and closes the client is still receiving 
  > the data. The client ends only after it gets all the bytes send
  > by server.
  > 
  > As discussed after class told , you said it might be because the
  > client is still receiving data from buffer or MD5 calculation is
  > taking time.
  > However is this behaviour acceptable?

I cannot answer question of this type in e-mail.  Please see
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