[zeromq-dev] Heartbeats and/or keep-alives

[Steven McCoy]

On 14 October 2010 13:23, Pieter Hintjens <ph at imatix.com> wrote:

> Ack on your points.  KeepAlive / Heartbeating belongs in the tcp://
> transport layer, doing this at the application level does not appear
> to be the best approach.  But it's the workaround for now.  You can
> make it work better by only sending heartbeats when there is no other
> data to send, i.e. when the sender is idle.
>
>
The alternative is to close the TCP connection after idling for a period of
time.  You'll get hit on latency of the next message but it's a easier
implementation.

-- 
Steve-o
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