[zeromq-dev] PUSH socket blocks when no client is connected

[Leonard Michelet]

Hello, have you tried the ZMQ_DONTWAIT flag on the send call? Depending on your version of ZeroMQ, it may be ZMQ_NOBLOCK

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> De: "Robert Pickering" <robertfpickering at fastmail.com>
> À: "ZeroMQ development list" <zeromq-dev at lists.zeromq.org>
> Envoyé: Lundi 14 Septembre 2015 16:56:18
> Objet: [zeromq-dev] PUSH socket blocks when no client is connected

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm running into a problem that PUSH sockets always block on send when
> no PULL socket is connected.
> 
> First a brief note about what I'm trying to achieve: I'm trying to
> distribute notifications from one server to a number of clients. The
> scenario looks a lot like sub/pub, but there's an important difference
> that means sub/pub is not suitable. The difference is I'd like all
> clients to receive all notifications and tolerate a short disconnection
> period. When a client crashes the server should queue messages for the
> client until the client restarts. If the client is disconnected for too
> long then messages can be thrown away.
> 
> With with SUB/PUB sockets, if a crash in the client occurs the
> notification received are received by all remaining active clients but
> are lost to the client that has crashed. I'm trying to implement this
> scenario using PUSH/PULL sockets but running into the problem that send
> blocks when no PULL client is connected.
> 
> I know the number of clients in advance, so each client has it's own
> PUSH socket on the server. To send a notification I loop over all the
> sockets on the server and send the notification. This works well until
> one client is disconnected then it's socket starts to block, so no
> further notifications can be send.
> 
> I've tried many things to get the PUSH to queue the message instead of
> blocking, including setting the socket options: ZMQ_SNDBUF to 1000000,
> ZMQ_SNDHWM to 10000 and ZMQ_IMMEDIATE to 1, although from my reading of
> the docs none of these should be necessary.
> 
> Is there anyway to get the PUSH socket to queue the messages rather than
> block when no client is connected? Or, if what I'm trying is not the
> best pattern to implement the scenario described I'd be very interested
> to hear ideas on other ways to implement it.
> 
> Many thanks,
> Robert
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