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TIBCO iProcess® Engine 11.10.0

# RPCXFRSIZE

## Section

STAFF

## Initial Value

4096

## Units

Bytes

## Range

512, 1024, 2048, 4096

## Description

This setting determines the maximum buffer size used for client/server communication of stream data. This setting is primarily used when reading text files, forms, or memos from the server or for copying files down to the client.

As a significant amount of data needs to be read at login time increasing the size of this parameter can have benefits to log in time on large systems, particularly over WANs.

Adjusting this value enables you to tune the size and number of packets sent over the network.

## Tuning

When considering network performance, particularly over a WAN, it is important to consider the number and size of requests being made over the network.

Any tuning of this parameter needs to take into account the characteristics of the network, in general increasing the size of this parameter to `4096` will reduce the number of network requests and therefore reduce the latency inherent in waiting for a request to be responded to. There may be circumstances on a busy WAN where sending large packets is blocking other requests and therefore causing poor response for other users.

In most cases, network performance problems in iProcess are not caused by the amount of data being transferred but the number of packets being sent. Therefore by increasing the value of `RPCXFRSIZE` many RPC calls can pass more data than before and therefore fewer calls are made. Even on a LAN, a single RPC round trip can take 25ms irrespective of the size of the packet, i.e. 20 bytes or 4K, therefore 200 RPC calls are likely to take 5 seconds. If by increasing the packet size only 50 RPC calls are made then the total time comes down to 1.25 secs.

## Example

A procedure does a FileCopy from server to client of a 2Mb file.

## Results

| • | With RPCXFRSIZE=1024 time to copy 2Mb to Client = 15 Sec.

| • | With RPCXFRSIZE=4095 time to copy 2Mb to Client = 8.5 Sec.

While this is a large file and not necessarily a typical operation, you can see there are some benefits.

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