If the server doesn't get a reply within some timeout, it'll have to resend the task to a different worker.
-Pieter On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Alterman, Eugene <[email protected]> wrote: > What happens if the worker whose identity was picked from the queue becomes > unavailable? > This could happen even if the server relies on heartbeats from workers to > purge the queue. > ________________________________ > > The ROUTER-based load-balancing pattern will send messages only to > workers that are available, while DEALER will rotate messages to all > its connections even if some are busy and/or offline temporarily. > > -Pieter > > ________________________________ > > _______________________________________________ > zeromq-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev > _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
