[zeromq-dev] epgm protocol question

Martin Lucina mato at kotelna.sk
Tue Apr 13 15:40:01 CEST 2010


steven.mccoy at miru.hk said:
> On 13 April 2010 21:30, Martin Lucina <mato at kotelna.sk> wrote:
> 
>     In my opinion the correct way to do this is to have OpenPGM
>     reserve e.g. 5% of the requested data rate for RDATA by default, with the
>     option to configure the reserved bandwidth amount for those who wish to
>     shoot themselves in the foot.
> 
> 
> 
> Unusually SmartPGM is the only implementation I've seen with rate controls and
> all it has in respect to RDATA vs. ODATA here is to set RDATA to be say maximum
> 5% of the rate limit - but not to reserve it solely for RDATA.

So my reasoning is correct when I say that with the current implementation
if I set TWX_MAX_RTE to e.g. 100Mbps, then proceed to publish at 100Mbps
and *any* packet loss occurs, things will break?

-mato



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