Question

I have a Socket Client and I was wondering what would be the correct approach to read the incoming data from it.

Currently I am using the follow function:

private void _ReadResponsePackets()
{
    while (_socket.Connected)
    {
        try
        {
            byte[] bytes = new byte[1500];
            _socket.Receive(bytes);
            if (bytes.Length > 0)
            LoginserverPackets.Enqueue(bytes);
        }
        catch (Exception ex)
        {
            _log.Write(ErrorType.ERROR, "[LOGINCLIENT] " + ex.ToString(), true);
        }
    }
}

That is called by it is own thread:

Thread _readDataThread = new Thread(_ReadResponsePackets);
_readDataThread.Start();

As you can see I am merelly reading and pilling up the packets received on a queue list to be further threaded but my question here is:

• Should I use a Thread.Sleep in my
  read function or leave it as it is ?
• Would it impact more on the
  performance or memory usage as it is
  or using Thread.Sleep ?

Any other toughts ?

Answer 1

Please check the following link, the socket will be in blocking mode, so you don’t need to use Thread.Sleep. Listener