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I have a java code that is receiving ethernet packets and writing into a file in decimal format.
Each packet consist of 1000 bytes and the delay between packets is 100 micro seconds.
When i noticed carefully , lots of packets are missing!...can java receive and store in a text file with high speed? if not, what is the maximum limit?
Would really appreciate if someone can help.
Use two threads: one to receive the data store it in memory and another thread that writes the collected data to a file. That scenaria makes the in memory collection a critical resource, the first thread will be the 'producer' and the file writing thread will be the 'consumer'.Quote:
Originally Posted by abdullahansari
You have to synchronize on that critical resource, i.e. if it is being emptied by the consumer the producer has to wait before it can store new information (the new incoming packet) in it and the consumer has to wait until something is available for writing.
kind regards,
Jos
Or have a list/queue to put the new info in so that the producer never has to wait.Quote:
if it is being emptied by the consumer the producer has to wait before it can store new information
Then add some code to keep track of the queue length to see if the producer ever gets ahead of the consumer.
Thank you for your suggestions.
I m very new to java especially concurrent programming.
How do i pass the data from one thread to another?
My imaginary plan is to create an array and store the data in one thread and
open a file ,write the data and close the file in the other thread.
But my questions is how do i transfer the array from one thread to another?
Do i need an action listener ?
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You don't pass the data. The producer thread saves it in a container and the consumer thread gets it from that container.
You'll need to look at the Tutorial and other docs to understand the process and which java classes to use to do this.
You can't do any design work on this until understand the process.