[zeromq-dev] drop oldest

[Daniel Krikun]

Well, I don't think drop-oldest must be for PUB-SUB pattern only. Though
it's a common use-case, but I think it should better fit somewhere around
hwm socket option for all kind or sockets capable of receiving messages.

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Pieter Hintjens <ph at imatix.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Ian Barber <ian.barber at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > It is worth noting that the oldest in many cases will be in the buffers
> of
> > the transport, so you will in reality be dropping the
> oldest-in-zmq-space.
> > There's a high chance of receiving some old messages on the other end.
> > Still, might be a preferable option, but would need to be caveated in the
> > documentation. I think there is a sensible abstraction somewhere (though
> > fwiw MS wasn't too convinced) for flexible HWM code - there are regular
> > requests for oldest first and credit based flow control, both of which
> are
> > basically HWM policies. The ability to do rollups in the queued messages
> > would also be beneficial for some applications.
>
> Drop-oldest has to happen at the receiver to be safe.
>
> All the things you're talking about are fairly doable in user space.
> Perhaps worth exploring as a higher-level pub/sub pattern?
>
> -Pieter
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