Why does the sender send a data to sleep, without sleep, the receiver loses packets?

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Sun, 08/13/2017 - 01:19

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Why does the sender send a data to sleep, without sleep, the receiver loses packets?

Thu, 08/17/2017 - 07:42

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Because your computer is faster than the network connection, and so those samples need to be buffered. If the buffers overflow, when the network can't keep up, samples get dumped in favor of later samples. sleep() mitigates this fact of life.

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