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From: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
To: <gianni@ecsc.co.uk>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: TCP memory pressure question
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 12:28:54 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021122202855.AAA322@shell.webmaster.com@whenever> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1037966789.6079.33.camel@lemsip>


On 22 Nov 2002 12:06:29 +0000, Gianni Tedesco wrote:

>On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 21:34, David Schwartz wrote:

>>    When a Linux machine has reached the tcp_mem limit, what will happen to
>>'write's on non-blocking sockets? Will they block until more TCP memory is
>>available? Will they return an error code? ENOMEM?

>from write(2) man page.

>EAGAIN Non-blocking I/O has been selected using O_NONBLOCK and the write
>would block.

	So this would be a case where 'poll' or 'select' would return a write hit 
for a socket but 'write' would return -1 and set errno to EAGAIN.

	DS



  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-22 20:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-21 21:34 TCP memory pressure question David Schwartz
2002-11-22 12:06 ` Gianni Tedesco
2002-11-22 20:28   ` David Schwartz [this message]
2002-11-23  0:06     ` Jamie Lokier
2002-11-23  0:28       ` David Schwartz
2002-11-23 22:34         ` Folkert van Heusden
2002-11-23 22:54           ` David Schwartz
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-11-22  1:27 Nivedita Singhvi
2002-11-22  9:18 ` Alex Riesen

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