[zeromq-dev] How bad is repetitively open/closing sockets on inproc?

[Lucas Hope]

Hi all,

I have a usage where I have been receiving REST requests on http with a
multi-threaded webserver in Common Lisp, and funnelling them to a zeromq
logger thread. As I don't have control of the web threads, I had been doing
the 'nono' of just opening a socket, connecting, writing the log message,
then closing the socket.

I know this is a zmq anti-pattern and I am currently writing a version
which funnels using a concurrent queue to solve this problem properly.

My question is: can this cause system resource problems even for inproc? It
obviously causes file descriptor usage for ipc and tcp.

This is on a linux box using zeromq 2.2 (also I'm in the process of
updating to 3.2.3). I received repeated "connection refused" errors on the
connect after an uptime of a couple of weeks, and just want to do a bit of
diagnosis. I do think this is a user error rather than a zeromq error. :)

Regards,

-Luke
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