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
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