From: "Christopher Friesen" <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: Chris Wright <chris@wirex.com>
Cc: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: question on select: How big can the empty buffer space be before select returns ready-to-write?
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 14:05:31 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C15077B.6AD2693E@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C145359.3090401@candelatech.com> <20011209233349.C27109@figure1.int.wirex.com>
Chris Wright wrote:
>
> * Ben Greear (greearb@candelatech.com) wrote:
> > For instance, it appears that select will return that a socket is
> > writable when there is, say 8k of buffer space in it. However, if
> > I'm sending 32k UDP packets, this still causes me to drop packets
> > due to a lack of resources...
>
> udp has a fixed 8k max payload. did you try breaking up your packets?
Are you sure about that? UDP has a 16-bit field for the length. Thus the
standard technically allows for packet sizes (including header) of up to 2^16
(roughly 65K) bytes.
Chris
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-10 19:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-10 6:16 question on select: How big can the empty buffer space be before select returns ready-to-write? Ben Greear
2001-12-10 7:33 ` Chris Wright
2001-12-10 8:38 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-10 16:41 ` Ben Greear
2001-12-10 19:05 ` Christopher Friesen [this message]
2001-12-10 21:46 ` Chris Wright
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