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Administration Overhead

hotlips
hotlips
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Hi
Has anyone any idea on how much bandwith and time the ICE network uses on administrative task behind our backs?
Best Regards,
Kristian Lippert

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  • marc
    marc Florida
    What administrative tasks are you referring to?
  • hotlips
    hotlips
    marc wrote: »
    What administrative tasks are you referring to?
    Appletalk spent a lot of time doing administrative tasks
    DCOM has a pinging mechanism that takes up some bandwidth
    So does ICE have some "behind-the-scene" network activity?
    Best Regards,
    Kristian Lippert
  • michi
    michi
    hotlips wrote: »
    Appletalk spent a lot of time doing administrative tasks
    DCOM has a pinging mechanism that takes up some bandwidth
    So does ICE have some "behind-the-scene" network activity?

    None whatsoever. The only time any activity occurs on the wire is when a client sends a request. There is some protocol overhead, of course, such as for the request header, and for things such as the count of items that precedes a sequence elements on the wire. This means that the number of bytes sent is somewhat larger than the actual size of the payload. However, typically, that overhead is very low, depending on the request size. For requests with a reasonable payload, that overhead is down to a fraction of a percent.

    Overall, the Ice protocol is extremely efficient (quite a bit more efficient than CORBA's IIOP, for example).

    Cheers,

    Michi.

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