[zeromq-dev] Is Pub/Sub unreliable

[gonzalo diethelm]

I wrote two small apps: one binds a PUB socket to an endpoint and sends
N messages to it; the other connects a SUB socket to that same endpoint
and receives N messages. The sender optionally can wait a certain amount
of ms between each send, and it always waits for 60 seconds at the end.
I am attaching both files; all my tests are under Windows XP.

I run the following commands on two separate windows:

# send 20 msgs, waiting 50 ms between them, no poll
./sender tcp://127.0.0.1:5009 20 50 0

# receive 20 messages
./receiver tcp://127.0.0.1:5009 20

This works erratically. Sometimes receiver receives less than 20
messages; sometimes it receives NONE.

Is it the case that PUB/SUB sockets are unreliable? This is sort of a
surprise to me... If they are not, what could explain this behavior?
Thanks in advance.

-- 
Gonzalo Diethelm 





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