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edcornflake - 30 Sep 2006 19:43 GMT

We are currently using IE 6.0 as a video over IP viewing window on XP
Pro. The CPU usage spikes at 100% and the image freezes (this happens
periodically). We also incur numerous page faults. We're told that
the maximum sockets allowed by XP is 65,000 with a refresh rate of 4
minutes. Is there any way to increase the sockets and quicken the
refresh rate to less than 4 minutes?

Our primary goal is to eliminate the occasional freezing as this can
cause the viewer to lose the real time image and could endanger those
being monitored.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks,
Ed Cornflake.

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Robert Moir - 30 Sep 2006 23:34 GMT

> We are currently using IE 6.0 as a video over IP viewing window on XP
> Pro. The CPU usage spikes at 100% and the image freezes (this happens
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> cause the viewer to lose the real time image and could endanger those
> being monitored.

If you need real time monitoring of a standard required to ensure the health
and wellbeing of people then you don't need answers to these questions, you
need a new set of questions.

IP is not a 'reliable' protocol at the lowest level, so it's impossible to
guarantee the timely delivery of traffic. Hence it's impossible to guarantee
that transient network issues will never ever cause a problem with your real
time viewing of images.

The maximum amount of ports available on any operating system that supports
TCP/IP properly will be 65535 ports, many of which will be reserved for
various processes before you can start using them for apps. I'm not sure
what you mean by 'refresh rate' in this context, by the way.

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