From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 02:42:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 02:42:43 -0500 Received: from cerebus.wirex.com ([65.102.14.138]:31731 "EHLO figure1.int.wirex.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 02:42:28 -0500 Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2001 23:33:49 -0800 From: Chris Wright To: Ben Greear Cc: linux-kernel Subject: Re: question on select: How big can the empty buffer space be before select returns ready-to-write? Message-ID: <20011209233349.C27109@figure1.int.wirex.com> Mail-Followup-To: Ben Greear , linux-kernel In-Reply-To: <3C145359.3090401@candelatech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3C145359.3090401@candelatech.com>; from greearb@candelatech.com on Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 11:16:57PM -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * 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? cheers, -chris