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From: khandelw@cs.fsu.edu
To: Mike Jagdis <mjagdis@eris-associates.co.uk>
Cc: jyotiraditya@softhome.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Select/Poll
Date: Thu,  3 Jun 2004 11:53:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1086278015.07e5e9ff7c143@system.cs.fsu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040603151058.GA3169@eris-associates.co.uk>

I meant it in the context of TCP. I thought it was implicit enough, because if
he was using UDP then packet loss is expected. (not necessary that it will
happen)

- Amit Khandelwal

 Quoting Mike Jagdis <mjagdis@eris-associates.co.uk>:

> On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 11:28:29AM -0400, khandelw@cs.fsu.edu wrote:
> > Hello,
> >    Can you give more details - Like which machine which vendor etc.,
> > On a sony vaio pcg frv31 laptop/ redhat 9.0/ after firing some 36,000+
> request
> > my select multiplexed server used to fail. With select I believe you not
> get
> > any packet loss...
>
> Then you'd be wrong. Poll/select tell you when desriptors
> are readable/writable. They do *not* impose any magic queuing
> mechanism that guarantees the buffers won't overflow. If the
> low level protocol is non-flow controlled like UDP you *have*
> to read data faster than it arrives and not write data faster
> than it is being transmitted.
>
> Mike
>
> --
> Mike Jagdis                        Web: http://www.eris-associates.co.uk
> Eris Associates Limited            Tel: +44 7780 608 368
> Reading, England                   Fax: +44 118 926 6974
>



      reply	other threads:[~2004-06-03 15:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-02  5:33 Select/Poll jyotiraditya
2004-06-02  5:54 ` Select/Poll David Schwartz
2004-06-02  6:12   ` Select/Poll Ben Greear
2004-06-02  6:38     ` Select/Poll bert hubert
2004-06-02  6:09 ` Select/Poll Ben Greear
2004-06-02  7:05 ` Select/Poll Vadim Lobanov
2004-06-02 14:11   ` Select/Poll Davide Libenzi
2004-06-02 15:28 ` Select/Poll khandelw
2004-06-03 15:10   ` Select/Poll Mike Jagdis
2004-06-03 15:53     ` khandelw [this message]

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