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From: Nivedita Singhvi <niv@us.ibm.com>
To: davids@webmaster.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: TCP memory pressure question
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 17:27:45 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DDD8811.752CA2C4@us.ibm.com> (raw)

>         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?
> 
>         If it varies by kernel version, details about different versions would be 
> extremely helpful. I'm most interested in late 2.4 kernels.
> 
>         Thanks in advance.
> 

Returns EAGAIN.
Fairly static ~late 2.4.

thanks,
Nivedita

             reply	other threads:[~2002-11-22  1:26 UTC|newest]

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

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