String, integer, property list, list - it's all good. 
Gene
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hanford Lemoore" <hanford gmail.com>
To: "Director - Shockwave - and Flash Game
Production"
<dirgames-lnuttybar.drama.uga.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: [dirGames-L] Multiuser - ballpark figures?
> This is a great topic, a very interesting read even
though I've never used
> MUS.
>
> Regarding the #content, does MUS require it be a list,
or could you send a
> string if you wanted?
>
>
> On 11/28/06, Gene Endrody <genemmorpg.ca> wrote:
>>
>> Actually I worked it out because I was curious
myself. I've changed my
>> mind
>> about the SMUS being inefficient. The message I
provided is 106 bytes.
>>
>> for my message....
>>
>> [#errorCode: 0, #recipients: ["DM1"], #senderID: "System.Script",
>> #subject:
>> "MP", #content: [10800, 749, 7796, 200,
75, 4, 9929810, "1011001", "sd",
>> 8429716, 1794369], #timeStamp: 9929817]
>>
>> Here's the math......
>>
>> header 16 bytes
>> errorcode 4 bytes
>> recipients 8 bytes
>> senderid 18 bytes
>> Subject 6 bytes
>> Timestamp 4 bytes
>> Content -
>> 9x4 integers=36 bytes, "1011001"=12
bytes, "sd"=6 bytes.....50bytes total
>> for content
>>
>> so 16+4+8+18+6+4+50=106 bytes
>>
>> Gene
>> MaidMarian.com
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Lon Koenig" <lonmediagods.com>
>> To: "Director - Shockwave - and Flash Game
Production"
>> <dirgames-lnuttybar.drama.uga.edu>
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 11:59 AM
>> Subject: Re: [dirGames-L] Multiuser - ballpark
figures?
>>
>>
>> > On 11/28/06, Gene Endrody wrote:
>> >>Packet sizes are optimized fairly well....I
think. Small movements are
>> >>filtered out - messages are only sent if
there's substantial change.
>> >>Here's a typical one...
>> >>
>> >>Three of the integer entries are
anti-hacker measures, so it was a bit
>> >>smaller a few months ago. Tankball packets
are a little bigger if
>> >>you're
>> >>shooting....but not substantialy.
>> >>position message from Sherwood Dungeon
>> >>
>> >>[#errorCode: 0, #recipients: ["DM1"], #senderID: "System.Script",
>> >>#subject: "MP", #content: [10800,
749, 7796, 200, 75, 4, 9929810,
>> >>"1011001", "sd",
8429716, 1794369], #timeStamp: 9929817]
>> >>
>> >>Gene
>> >
>> > Ah.
>> > In my case I was thinking of some proxy stuff
to compress packets, but
>> > even with regular MUS stuff you could reduce
this quite a bit:
>> > 1) reduce length of symbol names
>> > 2) Base64 encode numbers
>> > 3) Pack the "Content" field into a
single string
>> > This will require additional processing on
both ends of the
>> > transaction,
>> > but you could reduce your above example to:
>> > [#e: 0, #r: ["DM1"], #sid:
"System.Script", #s: "MP", #c: "Cow
Lt B50
>> DI
>> > BL 4 l4RS 1011001 sd gKCU G2FB", #ts:
"l4RZ"]
>> > without having to completely restucture your
code.
>> > Depending on how your server CPU load is, you
could even compact
>> > further
>> > and add a checksum.
>> > I generally just have two fields: packet type
and packet contents as a
>> > string. Of course, I've never tried anything
on the scale you're
>> > dealing
>> > with.
>> >
>> > 189 bytes becomes 119 bytes.
>> > If you're running 1800 gB/month, that's a
savings of 667gB per month.
>> > If
>> > the additional overhead of taking the packets
apart doesn't kill the
>> > server, that's a significant savings.
>> >
>> > --
>> > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.
>> > Lon Koenig Consulting lonmediagods.com
>> > (612) 965-6305 http://www.schnoggo.com
>> >
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