[zeromq-dev] Does the HWM work on PULL sockets?

[Henry Baragar]

Hi,

I am doing some experiments on 0MQ (using the ruby bindings) and have found 
that the HWM does not seem to have any effect.

Here is my scenario:
I have a manager process that sends out a message every second on a PUSH 
socket over a period of 10 seconds
I have a worker process with a HWM of of 1 that receives messages and takes 5 
seconds to process each message (i.e. sleep 5)
I start the manager process which blocks until I start worker process.  As 
soon as the worker connects, the manager starts sending out its messages every 
second: it does not block after sending out the 2nd message (nor the 3rd, 4th, 
5th, etc.).  Furthermore, if I kill the worker after the manager has sent out 
7 messages and then start a new one, messages 2-7 get lost (message 1 has been 
processed): I would expect only message 2, and possibly message 3, to be lost.

Am I understanding HWM correctly?  Or is there a problem with HWM on PULL 
sockets?

Regards,
Henry

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Henry Baragar
Instantiated Software

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