AS3 Socket Issues With Large Data on MacOS
So... I was writing an MXML/AS3 application that uses a Socket class instance to consume large amounts of data from a Java socket server program. The server is supposed to write very rapidly 1MB data chucks to a connected AS3 client. Now the funny part is that when the packet size is less that 64K, the server would write these packets very quickly, but when it was writing 1MB chucks, it would "stall" between writes while the client was reading the data in 64KB chuncks. So, I start pulling my old TCP tuning trick back from my 'C' days to tune the socket server. But no difference. I can only tune the server side as the client AS3 socket class does not offer any tuning properties and I'm assuming that the folks at Adobe would implement sockets correctly. It is this last statement that kept nagging me. "How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?" (Sherlock Holmes). So...