Hoppie's ACARS Network

Project Progress

2024-04-21
Those changes seem to have worked wonders. The system now pulls over 1000 parallel users without blinking. I've also extended the maximum length of names and e-mail addresses.

2024-04-20
I'm disabling various noncritical interfaces to reduce the system load. There are software clients out there that respond in a bad way to increased waiting times for connections. Any client should be able to cope with 20-30 seconds of waiting time without doing something silly, like firing dozens of similar requests per second. This makes the matter only worse! Please, if you program an ACARS client and you detect a long latency or other problem that probably is a performance issue, back off and reduce your polling rate. Go from once per minute down to once per two minutes. No it ain't great, but that keeps the system working properly.

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