Prevent TCP connections from causing UDP packet loss

Question

Consider the prototypical multiplayer game server.

Clients connecting to the server are allowed to download maps and scripts. It is straightforward to create a TCP conn

Answer 1

It sounds a lot like you're solving a problem the wrong way:

1. If you're worried about losing UDP packets, you should consider not using UDP.
2. If you're worried about sharing bandwidth between two functions, you should consider having separate pipes (bandwidth) for them.
3. Traffic shaping (which is what this sounds like) is typically addressed in the OS. You should look in that direction before making strange changes to your application.
4. If you haven't already gotten the application working and experienced this problem, you are probably prematurely optimizing.