[zeromq-dev] DEALER/ROUTER question about HWMs

[Pieter Hintjens]

The behavior is defined here: http://rfc.zeromq.org/spec:28

On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Diego Fons <diego.fons at intraway.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm implementing a DEALER/ROUTER schema in which messages are sent from
> DEALER to ROUTER only, no messages are sent back. My question is related to
> HWMs in both sockets.
>
> When reaching the SNDHWM in DEALER socket, application will block (this is
> clear in documentation), however, it is not clear in documentation what
> happens if the RCVHWM is reached in the ROUTER socket.
>
> I'm assuming that if RCVHWM in ROUTER is reached, all the channel (end to
> end) will eventually block, ie. the DEALER socket will block too. I'm not
> expecting the ROUTER socket to drop messages once the RCVHWM is reached.
>
> Is this assumption correct?
> How does it behave with several clients?
> Does the ROUTER create an individual queue for each client or all clients
> share the same queue?
>
> Best regards,
> Diego A. Fons.
>
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