[zeromq-dev] Some question about blocking send/recv

[Martin Sustrik]

Hi Saju,

>   I am not able to replicate this behaviour. If I start the server your
> server with a sleep(60) instead of the sleep(1), and then fire multiple
> clients against this server, all clients get queued up with a ~60sec
> delay between each client. The /*do work*/ payload of your main loop is
> sequential.  As I understand IO is handled by independent IO threads but
> that doesn't automatically "parallelize" your application itself.

If processing one task takes 60 secs, single thread obviously can't do 
more than 1 message a minute.

To create a multithreaded server have a look here:

http://www.zeromq.org/blog:multithreaded-server

Martin