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Unfortunately 9P2000 tends to perform badly over high latency connections. There was talk of writing a new version that would allow clients to group certain mes
by lubutu 15y ago
Unfortunately 9P2000 tends to perform badly over high latency connections. There was talk of writing a new version that would allow clients to group certain messages, but nothing ever came of it.
Edit: I just found a very recent paper on Improving the performance of Styx based services over high latency links (Styx being the Inferno name for 9P): http://gsyc.es/tr-docs/RoSaC-2011-2.pdf http://gsyc.es/tr-docs/RoSaC-2011-2.pdf
- jff 15y agoAh, yes, that would be the work on Op, which IIRC can act as a sort of proxy, meaning you shouldn't have to re-write any clients or servers. There is also an experimental implementation of 9P "streams", which actually resemble a passive FTP transfer--a separate TCP connection is negotiated via the 9P connection and then used solely to transfer file data.