RE: Memory allocation

[Buck Calabro <Buck.Calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I have my read set to recieve 32K per read. However, the first 
>read receives 108 bytes and most of the time the next reads 
>will receive 16,832 bytes. My sockets program is communicating 
>with a web-server from a Windows box (if that helps). Also, the 
>16,832 thing is not consistent. For an example: I received a 
>document that took four reads that arrived in the following 
>sequence. First read: 108; Second read: 16,832; 
>Third read: 16,832; Fourth read: 8,586. I then received the 
>exact same document again and it arrived as 108; 21,152; 
>16,832; 4,266. It seems to me that the iSeries is buffering 
>the input somewhere.

It isn't the iSeries; it's the network.  Depending on the route and routers,
TCP/IP can break a packet into smaller ones as it sees fit.  That's just the
way it works.

Buck Calabro
Commsoft; Albany, NY
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