The documentation recommends creating one single context per process, and when creating it you specify how many zeromq threads to use.
-- Bruno Rodrigues Sent from my iPhone No dia 09/01/2014, às 13:33, Jan Drabner <j...@jdrabner.eu> escreveu: > Hey there, > > We are currently doing research for our project to figure out the best > way to do inter-thread communication with a message queue. As we are > using zmq for networking purposes already, it was logical to also > research it for the above purpose. > > Now, we will have a number of threads (say 5-10) communicating with each > other to send commands, synchronize data, etc. > Each of the threads will have to communicate with a certain number of > other threads. I figured that for this setup, making each thread a > publisher as well as a subscriber to the other threads it wants to > listen to would be the best bet. > However, I do not know how many internal zmq threads that would yield. > > Imagine this socket situation for thread A (all threads use the same > context, only inproc is used): > Socket for publishing > Socket for subscribing to thread B > Socket for subscribing to thread F > Socket for subscribing to thread J > > How many internal zmq OS threads would be spawned for this? > > If it is just one (per context), it would be fine. If it is one > additional internal thread per our thread (or per publishing socket), it > would probably be acceptable. If it was per socket (any kind of socket), > however, that would be really bad as it would mean we had roughly +5 > threads per our own thread. Even if those thread do not do much, they > would still take away too many pieces of the cake. > > Hope someone can answer that question :) > Regards, > Jan > > > _______________________________________________ > zeromq-dev mailing list > zeromq-dev@lists.zeromq.org > http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list zeromq-dev@lists.zeromq.org http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev
