[zeromq-dev] ZeroMQ (2.1.7) subscriber "memory leak"

[Ian Barber]

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Jess Morecroft <jess.morecroft at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> Re the responsibility of discarding messages, I tend to disagree.
> Unless i'm mistaken we're basically talking about a situation where I
> can create a sub socket, connect to a bunch of publishers, not
> subscribe to a single topic, but be assured a memory explosion if I do
> not at some point call recv or poll (which I have no incentive to do
> as I'm not subscribed to anything). This behaviour to me at least was
> not obvious - I assumed that sub message filtering would like hwm
> enforcement just happen behind the scenes and not need to be prompted
> by a call to recv or poll.
>
>
This unexpected requirement to service the queue to some degree at various
points has been bought up before, and I think it is a fair concern. A
periodic noblock recv would fix the issue, but I agree this is not a very
clear way of handling the issue - though hopefully as 3.1 moves towards
stable the issue will recede somewhat.

Ian
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