[Empeg-general] Re: Which is faster? Jemplode vs Emplode

[Hugo Fiennes]

We do this already; Peter added it a while back. It's call fast channel and just has a separate TCP pipe the file data gets shoved down; I *think* it's been there since v1. ISTR it's only in one direction (ie, downloads to the player).

mmap() has issues. Fast channel used to use mmap(), but kernel bugs in 2.2.14 caused it to be unstable and result in lockups, hence it's not in the shipping code. Peter can probably fill you in on this one... it almost maxed out ethernet before falling over.

Hugo