Re: [zeromq-dev] Is HWM supported for PUSH/PULL

2018-10-11 Thread Doron Somech
Is it InProc or TCP? The behavior of HWM is to drop or block, not replace. In case of PUSH socket the send operation should block. You can use another trick to "replace". Set the send HWM of the push socket to 100. Send with DONT_WAIT flag, if the send fail (return EAGAIN), set the linger of the

Re: [zeromq-dev] Is HWM supported for PUSH/PULL

2018-10-10 Thread James Harvey
Which side (send or recv) has the issue with the growing queue? If it's the recv side and your "extremely slow" process is only calling recv rarely then there may be no events to trigger the queue to check the HWM. Try calling zmq_getsockopt[3] with ZMQ_EVENT intermittently on the recv socket to