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

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Fri Dec 10 16:54:35 CET 2010


On Dec 10, 2010, at 5:12 AM, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:

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> On 12/09/2010 10:28 PM, Roman Haefeli wrote:
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>> @ 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.


A 300 MB network buffer!  That sounds scary.

.hc

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