Re: consistent response handling for running out of resources

2011-08-19 Thread Dave Shield
On 18 August 2011 17:09, Lewis Adam-VNQM87 vnq...@motorolasolutions.com wrote: As far as I can tell, in the latter case we just time out the request rather than attempt to send a too big (or any other) error response. Is this the correct behavior? The spec that Wes quoted

RE: consistent response handling for running out of resources

2011-08-19 Thread Lewis Adam-VNQM87
, August 19, 2011 10:32 AM To: Lewis Adam-VNQM87 Cc: net-snmp-coders@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: consistent response handling for running out of resources On 18 August 2011 17:09, Lewis Adam-VNQM87 vnq...@motorolasolutions.com wrote: As far as I can tell

Re: consistent response handling for running out of resources

2011-08-19 Thread Dave Shield
On 19 August 2011 11:11, Lewis Adam-VNQM87 vnq...@motorolasolutions.com wrote: I just did a grep through the net-snmp code [5.7 as well] and I can't see anywhere where the snmpSilentDrops stat gets updated. Am I missing something? Probably not. It wouldn't surprise me at all if this is an

Re: consistent response handling for running out of resources

2011-08-18 Thread Wes Hardaker
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:33:43 +0100, Lewis Adam-VNQM87 vnq...@motorolasolutions.com said: LA As I have mentioned, we do have an embedded system with limited LA resources and it would be interesting to know how unix-style agents cope LA with the same sort of test. RFC3416 has this to say:

RE: consistent response handling for running out of resources

2011-08-18 Thread Lewis Adam-VNQM87
@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: consistent response handling for running out of resources On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:33:43 +0100, Lewis Adam-VNQM87 vnq...@motorolasolutions.com said: LA As I have mentioned, we do have an embedded system with limited LA resources and it would be interesting to know how unix

RE: consistent response handling for running out of resources

2011-08-11 Thread Lewis Adam-VNQM87
: consistent response handling for running out of resources On Thu, 4 Aug 2011 13:08:50 +0100 Lewis wrote: LAV We are trying to provide a consistent response if a manager attempts to LAV send too many sub-requests within a single request. We have finite LAV resources and so at some point a malloc

Re: consistent response handling for running out of resources

2011-08-10 Thread Robert Story
On Thu, 4 Aug 2011 13:08:50 +0100 Lewis wrote: LAV We are trying to provide a consistent response if a manager attempts to LAV send too many sub-requests within a single request. We have finite LAV resources and so at some point a malloc will fail and depending where it LAV does, the net-snmp