It's not irrelevant but first, it defaults to 1000 and secondly there are buffers both at the sender and the receiver, as well as in TCP. On Jan 27, 2014 4:37 PM, "Goswin von Brederlow" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 07:15:03AM -0600, Pieter Hintjens wrote: > > Hi, > > > > The dealer socket distributes messages equally to all its peers, and > > the HWM isn't relevant here. Even busy workers will receive messages. > > You want some form of load balancing. The Guide has examples of this > > (load balancing brokers). > > > > -Pieter > > Is it completly irelevant? > > I naively thought the dealer would send equally to all sockets untill > they block. And on the other side the socket would read ahead until > its recv HWM is met. So at least recv HWM messages get queued up and > then whatever fits into the send and recv buffers the kernel has for > the sockets and whatever remains of the last message is buffered in > zmq internally. Or is that completly wrong? > > MfG > Goswin > _______________________________________________ > zeromq-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev >
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