[MUD-Dev] Re: Question regarding Java threads

[Vadim Tkachenko]

Chris Gray wrote:
> 
> [John J. Adelsberger III as quoted by Jon A. Lambert:
> 
>  >By the way, your P2-233 will choke with 200 active users.

Any references?

>  >Interrupt
>  >overflow from the NIC.  You could solve this problem with a $500 NIC
>  >that doesn't interrupt the CPU as much(has its own processor,) but
>  >then you'll have to ban char mode telnet outright and do some other
>  >unfriendly things too, and I just don't know that you're going to find
>  >200 simultaneous players anyway; few muds do, so unless you become one
>  >of them, it isn't worth the time, money, and effort to prepare for:)
> 
> Character-mode telnet connections are indeed evil. They consume far
> more resources than a line-mode telnet connection.

What is clear, is that the line mode allows buffering and utilizes the
protocol features better than character mode. Also, the interim solution
is WON'T ECHO, DO ECHO, if I remember it right, so the echo wouldn't
travel back and forth. Is there anything else which is a reason for such
evilness?

> Of course the full solution is for everyone to use my not-yet-written
> Java client, which connects in a binary mode which doesn't even have
> the concept of a character mode. :-/

Hold on a second, I might forget some details, but isn't it right that a
character mode _IS_ a binary mode with the command sequences in between?

> Chris Gray     cg at ami-cg.GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA

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