| Title: | DEC/EDI | 
| Notice: | DEC/EDI V2.1 - see note 2002 | 
| Moderator: | METSYS::BABER | 
| Created: | Wed Jun 06 1990 | 
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 | 
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 | 
| Number of topics: | 3150 | 
| Total number of notes: | 13466 | 
    Hi,
    
    A customer asked, and I wondered, what is the overhead on the
    client/server communication within DECEDI.
    
    eg If I send a 10k dokument to a server what amount of data will go
    over the line. ( + 10%, + 20%...? )
    anyone has an indication?
    
    Thanks
    GJ
    
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3074.1 | Less overhead in recent releases | SCASS1::HARRISON | Systems Integration - EDI | Wed Mar 26 1997 20:01 | 8 | 
|     GJ,
    
    When the client/server DEC/EDI first came out the overhead was much
    greater than +20%.  Changes were made, however, to help keep
    the overhead to a minimum in the more recent releases.  Perhaps Graham
    can comment on this.
    
    Don
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| 3074.2 | About 13x in this case | SYSTEM::HELLIAR | http://samedi.reo.dec.com/ | Thu Mar 27 1997 10:11 | 30 | 
|     GJ,
    
    The overhead will be significant on a POST operation as the interface
    definition is:
    
            /*
            ** Read data from a file
            */
    
            void READ
            (
                inout unsigned long        file_handle,
                in    string               filename,
                inout unsigned long        buffer_length,
                inout SeqOctet             buffer,
                out   boolean              end_of_file
            )
            raises (USER_EXCEPTION);
    #pragma operation_id( "DECEDI::CIS::READ",
    "68eb4b476f40.0c.70.a9.00.00.00.00.00
    ", 1)
    
    As buffer is an inout it goes from the server to the client and back
    again. We transfer data in 65K chunks so to pull your 10K file onto
    the server will result in at least 130K of data being transferred.
    
    Our new socket based interfaces due out in V3.2 will drastically
    reduce this overhead.
    
    Graham
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| 3074.3 | IJSAPL::DEWIJK | GJ from the Dutchlands | Thu Mar 27 1997 18:45 | 6 | |
|     Graham,
    
    thanks, another reason to dump OBB.
    
    looking out for V3.2
    GJ
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