[ENet-discuss] Enet Header size

[Peter Soxberger]

In what periods should enet_host_service() be called? I'm using a thread and alwas wait 2 milliseconds until I call enet_host_service(). Should I wait longer? What are your typical periods?

Greets,
Peter Soxberger

-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:11:06 -0800
> Von: Lee Salzman <lsalzman1 at cox.net>
> An: Discussion of the ENet library <enet-discuss at cubik.org>
> Betreff: Re: [ENet-discuss] Enet Header size

> It collects packets in between calls to enet_host_service(), yes.
> 
> Lee
> 
> Peter Soxberger wrote:
> > Ok does this mean that ENet collects the small packets and send it as
> one big packet for saving overhead?
> > I worried that this isn't implented because I use a lot of packets with
> small data in them and this would produce a lot of unnecessary overhead.
> >
> > -------- Original-Nachricht --------
> >   
> >> Datum: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:18:15 -0800
> >> Von: Lee Salzman <lsalzman1 at cox.net>
> >> An: Discussion of the ENet library <enet-discuss at cubik.org>
> >> Betreff: Re: [ENet-discuss] Enet Header size
> >>     
> >
> >   
> >> The size of a header for an individual user packet WITHIN a protocol 
> >> packet is about 6-8 bytes. Each protocol packet (which groups as many 
> >> user packets as it can up to the MTU) has a header size of 8 bytes.
> >>
> >> Lee
> >>
> >> Peter Soxberger wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Hi!
> >>>
> >>> I'm currently improving my code that calculates the actual
> transferrate.
> >>>       
> >> Does anybody of you know, how much overhead I produce if I send a
> single
> >> packet? I know that there is the UDP Header which is 8 Byte big. But
> how
> >> much is used by ENet?
> >>     
> >>> If I calculate the real size of a packet, is this correct:
> >>>
> >>> [UDP Header]+[ENet Headers]+[packet->dataLength] = Packet Size
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for your help!
> >>>   
> >>>       
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