Document sharing issues

[Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos]

Guillaume Desmottes wrote:
> Le lundi 21 avril 2008 à 10:24 -0500, James Simmons a écrit :
>   
>> 2).  Downloading a document is very slow.  I distribute View Slides 
>> files on an Apache server, using the Browse activity to copy same to the 
>> Journal.  This takes under a minute even for a large file (over 15mb).  
>> Then I share the document with another instance of Sugar on the same 
>> box.  *That* is agonizingly slow.  I know the two instances are not 
>> communicating directly, but it still seems like there is a lot of 
>> overhead going on.  Can I do anything about this?
>>     
>
> Were you using Gabble or Salut? Currently Gabble stream tubes still send
> their data through the jabber server making transfer really slow. I'm
> working on implementing real p2p instead (#4047).
> Salut doesn't have this problem though as it already uses TCP
> connections.
>   
Can you elaborate more on this? Isn't TCP the underlying mechanism for 
Gabble also? How is Salut more efficient?

p.