[PD-dev] about [tcpserver] (mrpeach and iemnet)

[Martin]

On 13/12/10 10:19 AM, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 10:54 -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>> On Dec 10, 2010, at 5:12 AM, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
>>> On 12/09/2010 10:28 PM, Roman Haefeli wrote:
>>>> @ IOhannes
>>>> Though I like this 'stable'/reliable behaviour of iemnet's
>>>> [tcpserver],
>>>> I wonder what happens, if it keeps sending data to the unreachable
>>>> client. Will it just go on and buffer everything until the whole
>>>> RAM of
>>>> the computer is consumed? If so, wouldn't it be more wise to just
>>>> disconnect that client at some point in order to avoid the box
>>>> running
>>>> out of memory?
>>> you can query the fillstate of the buffer from within the patch and
>>> act
>>> upon that: if you prefer to disconnect after 300MB (because of the
>>> 2.5GB
>>> memory you have, 2GB are only swap), or if you rather go and crash or
>>> whatever...it's up to you.
> Great! That's even better than to disconnect clients at some arbitrary
> buffer size.
>
What? It's better to crash the server than to disconnect an unresponsive 
client? And if the server itself loses its connection it will buffer 
300MB for each client and then crash?

Martin