On Tuesday, January 22, 2013 12:26:18 PM UTC+1, Ben Noordhuis wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:46 AM, An dreas 
> <[email protected]<javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
> > Currently I need to set SO_RCVBUF way higher on dgram-sockets I use 
> combined 
> > with multicast... 
>
> Why is that? 
>
> If you're experiencing packet loss, you will want to verify that the 
> issue is really on your side.  If packets get lost in transit or 
> discarded because of failing checksums, a larger receive buffer won't 
> help. 
>

I know this very well :)
In my scenario there are several thousands of packets per second, so a 
bigger buffer leads to fewer drops in case of load spikes on the machine. 
Packetsize is nearly Ethernet-MTU. This Application runs for nearly 10 
years now written in C and was regularly fine-tuned over the years, because 
of new possibilities like epoll, etc ... But it still needs SO_RECVBUF 
setted to about 512kb.

Machines get faster over the time and now I can afford the speed-penalty to 
run it on top of node.js. I know it's not the common case, but it would 
help me.

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