Laurent, Yes, there is a handshake when a connection is established, but it's totally insignificant, especially for a server that gets clients connecting at different moments. You could create a spike in network use if you made a thousand connections at the same instant, but that's not how it works with servers.
You can read exactly what happens in the protocol spec at rfc.zeromq.org/spec:23. -Pieter On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Laurent Alebarde <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi list, > > When I connect a socket (zsocket_connect), is there something that goes on > the wire before any send/receive command (zmsg_recv, zmsg_send) is issued ? > > In other words, is there a cost for a server to have hundreds or thousands > of clients that connect to it when communications occur ? > > Cheers, > > > Laurent. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
