[zeromq-dev] zeromq-dev Digest, Vol 34, Issue 72

[Marcelo Cantos]

Cool, that makes a lot of sense.

Thank you Pieter and Martin for the very helpful responses. I've learned a
lot in a short time, and I look forward to seeing what comes of all this in
newer versions of 0MQ.


Cheers,
Marcelo

On 15 October 2010 02:19, Pieter Hintjens <ph at imatix.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Marcelo Cantos
> <marcelo.cantos at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > My apologies in advance if I've misunderstood what Pieter is saying, but
> the
> > above statement doesn't sit right with me. Blocked applications are
> either
> > effectively dead because they have entered an endless loop, or are simply
> > taking an awfully long time to compute the billionth digit of pi.
>
> Sure, this is why heartbeating should be configurable.  In some
> applications it has to be 1/10th of a second, in others it should be
> 60 seconds or more.
>
> In some cases (pipeline, pubsub) heartbeats can only work at the
> transport level.
>
> In other cases you do need heartbeats at the application level as
> well.  So IMO we'll need them both in the tcp:// transport and on top
> of that in some use cases.
>
> -Pieter
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