[zeromq-dev] XREQ+XREP losing messages when HWM is hit
Martin Sustrik
sustrik at 250bpm.com
Sun Aug 1 22:06:26 CEST 2010
Martin,
> After some out of band discussion with Martin Hurton and Martin Sustrik, it
> turns out that this is a bug, which was introduced by commit
> 84e0c7991a9b316ed571533abc628cc1175750a3 on 2 May 2010.
>
> The intended behaviour of XREQ is that it should not drop messages, and
> should block on ZMQ_HWM being hit just as REQ sockets do.
>
> I will revert the problematic change on master; as a side effect devices
> such as the queue device will not function correctly when ZMQ_HWM is
> involved since the current implementation is naive and assumes that
> zmq_send() will not block.
>
> The fix is to reimplement the queue algorithm to use zmq_poll(). I will get
> around to this eventually, in the mean time it is left as an excersize for
> the reader :-)
Thanks for this!
Martin
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