Am I doing this right?

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I have an simple app that pulls UDP socket packets off a network, places
that packet data in a structure, and places the structure into a vb.net
Queue (use enqueue. and dequeue). Writes queue to SQL server
In the form I have global decl.
PUBLIC DataQueue as NEW QUEUE
PUBLIC STRUCTURE myDataStruct (add some elements)

In my ONRECEIVEI place the buffer data into myDataStruct and
DataQueue.Enqueue(myDataStruct).

I also have a 100ms timer that does this:
dim tmpStruct as NEW myDataStruct
tmpStruct = DataQueue.Dequeue()
write tmpStruct to SQL
I've got a bool flag in the timer routine to keep it from running again
until it finishes everthing

Is there any kind of conflict that can occur here?
If OnReceive fires and enqueues while timer is dequeueing?
Some sort of deadlock???
I debug.writeline when enqueueing to assure what goes in the queue, but
sometimes when I dequeue the data it has a value from another packet
(scrambled), though the enqueue showed fine. Happens rarely but does happen.
I don't quite understand how the OS executes the code, reading and writing
at what 'I guess' is the same time to that queue sometimes.
Is the scenerio above OK to use or is there a better solution (more stable)
than what I am doing?
Thanks
BUC
 
Hello Buc,

Is there somereason you dont just push the data direct to the DB? What's
the Queue for?

-Boo
 
A Little History.. The DB has one table that gets the inserted packets and a
SQL Stored Proc gets the inserted data and places it in other table. The
capture table is PURGED Every night. The captured table gets very big each
day (spurt times)(10-100K) inserts (but purged at midnight)
Since App receives thousands of packets, as the DB gets larger, the inserts
slow down and it causes the .net receive socket to eventually PUKE if I did
a straight insert, so I immead. throw them in a queue where they can get
inserted fast as as SQL will let them. possible, leaving the receive socket
cleared.
Thanks BUC
 
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