Can anyone explain why socket performance (throughput) varies
depending on the amount of data send and recv are called with?
For example: try creating a local client/server (running on the same
computer) where the server sends the client a fixed amount of data.
Using method A, recv(8192) and sendall( ) with 8192 bytes worth of
data. Do this 100 times. Using method B, recv(1) and sendall( ) with 1
byte worth of data. Do this 819200 times.
If you time both methods, method A has much greater throughput than
method B.
Server:
import socket
import random
import string
import time
HOST = 'localhost'
PORT = 50023
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
s.bind((HOST, PORT))
s.listen(1)
conn, addr = s.accept()
print 'Connected by', addr
string_1 = 'A'
string_8192 = ''.join([random.choice(string.letters + string.digits)
for i in range(8192)])
conn.sendall('Start')
start = time.clock()
total_data = 0
for i in range(0,100):
conn.sendall(string_8192)
total_data += len(string_8192)
print 'Send Speed (Long String): ' + str( total_data / (time.clock() -
start) / 1024 / 1024 ) + ' MB/sec\n\n'
start = time.clock()
total_data = 0
for i in range(0,819200):
conn.sendall(string_1)
total_data += len(string_1)
print 'Send Speed (Short String): ' + str( total_data / (time.clock()
- start) / 1024 / 1024 ) + ' MB/sec'
conn.close()
Client:
import socket
import time
HOST = 'localhost' # The remote host
PORT = 50023 # The same port as used by the server
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
s.bind((HOST, 50026))
s.connect((HOST, PORT))
data = s.recv(5)
print 'From Server: ' + data
start = time.clock()
total_data = 0
while total_data < 819200:
data = s.recv(8192)
total_data += len(data)
print 'Receive Speed (Long String): ' + str( total_data /
(time.clock() - start) / 1024 / 1024 ) + ' MB/sec\n\n'
start = time.clock()
total_data = 0
while total_data < 819200:
data = s.recv(1)
total_data += len(data)
print 'Receive Speed (Short String): ' + str( total_data /
(time.clock() - start) / 1024 / 1024 ) + ' MB/sec'
s.close()
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