as a general approach for udp based apps, forking a new process for processing each message is not a good idea, you basically consumes much of the cpu/memory resouces. there is already buffering implementation at the ip stack layer. If you're noticing the agent missing some of the request (due to snmp traffic burst, very extreme condition), its a good idea to implement some kind of buffering on it. by large, I don't think this is necessary.
Pingping Han wrote:
Hi,I have a question: Can Net-SNMP agent buffer requests? If can, how many request? I trace the codes, It seems snmpd doesn't fork new process to process the accepted request. right? Thank you very much. -Thanks Aileen
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