If you are using credit-based flow control then you shouldn’t care about the 
HWM settings. Set them to infinite.

cr

On Aug 21, 2014, at 1:17 PM, Gabriel Sanchez <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to implement credit-based flow control from Chapter 7 of the 
> guide using ROUTER-DEALER. However, I am dropping messages on the ROUTER side 
> when reaching the SNDHWM. If I set the maximum amount of credits to a 
> fraction of the SNDHWM I don't drop any messages. I checked the code in 
> pipe.cpp and saw that the reader side of the pipe only notifies the writer 
> when it has read a multiple of the LWM.
> 
> Does this mean that if the number of messages written by the ROUTER to a peer 
> pipe approaches the SNDHWM and in the meantime I get more credits before the 
> reader reaches the LWM I may drop messages? If so, are there any workarounds? 
> I was thinking of setting the maximum credit value to SNDHWM - LWM to ensure 
> that the number of messages written doesn't go above the SNDHWM.
> 
> I am using libzmq 3.2.3 and I noticed that in newer versions there's a patch 
> for notifying the application when sending a message to a ROUTER fails.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Gabriel
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