Oskar Sandberg <md98-osa at nada.kth.se> wrote: > It's not my area of experties (like if anything is) and I never got a > straight answer out of anybody about choking the incoming connection. Is > it a healthy thing to do? Will it overflow your OS buffers and screw with > the machine in general or will TCP handle it graciously?
Well, TCP has a flow-control mechanism built into it -- it depends on how your TCP stack is implemented, of course, but it strikes me that if your application stops reading data out of a socket for a while and the OS buffers fill up, the OS should stop sending ACKs back to the sender, in which case the sender takes this as a signal to slow down. If too much time passes before starting to receive ACKs again, however, the sender will close the connection. Anyway, nothing an application does should be able to mess up the OS, right? (in the ideal world) theo _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
