#setsockopt

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>>> import socket

>>> tcpSocket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)

>>> tcpSocket.bind((“0.0.0.0”, 8000))

>>> tcpSocket.listen(2)

>>> (client, (ip, port)) = tcpSocket.accept()

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root@TheLaughingMan:~# ncat 192.168.1.150 8000

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>>> client

<socket._socketobject object at 0xb74f6e9c>

>>> ip

‘192.168.1.10’

>>> port

1031

>>> client.send(“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.\n”)

89

>>> data = client.recv(2048)

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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Brilliant!

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>>> data

‘Brilliant!\n’

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import socket

tcpSocket = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)

tcpSocket.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1)

tcpSocket.bind((“0.0.0.0”, 8000))

tcpSocket.listen(2)

print “Waiting for a Client ... ”

(client, (ip, sock)) = tcpSocket.accept()

print “Received connection from : ”, ip

print “Starting ECHO output .... ”

data = ‘dummy’

while len(data):

data = client.recv(2048)

print “Client sent: ”, data

client.send(data)

print “Closing connection ...”

client.close()

print “Shutting down server ...”

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root@TheLaughingMan:~# python Server.py

Waiting for a Client ...

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root@ThePuppeteer:~# ncat –nv 192.168.1.150 8000

Ncat Version 6.47 ( http://nmap.org/ncat )

Ncat: Connected to 192.168.1.150:8000.

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Received connection from : 192.168.1.10

Starting ECHO output ....

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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

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Client sent: Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

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·        Create a simple Echo Server to handle 1 client

·        Create a Multi-Threaded Echo Server

·        Create a Multi-Process Echo Server

I've been struggling the past week with some performance issues in my network code. Our new network code base, built upon libevent 2.x, was giving us half the performance we got with our previous version, based on libevent 1.x. First, I thought it was a problem with the way we handled buffers, as we have switched to the "automatically" handled buffers that libevent provides, but it seems the problem was on some other socket tweaks I added in the middle of the port.

Looking at the tcpdumps, data was been sent in segments with a maximum size of 16Kbytes, and that was not good for sending big files. Even when sendfile() reported that it was sending large chunks of data (300Kbytes or so), the underlying sockets where really sending things on 16Kbytes blocks, reducing the global throughput to unacceptable levels.

Then I re-read this page on TCP tunning, and I found that:

Manually adjusting socket buffer sizes with setsockopt() disables autotuning. Application that are optimized for other operating systems may implicitly defeat Linux autotuning.

And it is true!. Skipping the code like:

int newBufSize = (1024 * 64); ::setsockopt(socket, SOL_SOCKET, SO_RCVBUF, newBufSize, sizeof(newBufSize)) ::setsockopt(socket, SOL_SOCKET, SO_SNDBUF, newBufSize, sizeof(newBufSize))