Oskar Sandberg wrote:
> It's not my area of experties (like if anything is) and I never got a
> straight answer out of anybody about choking the incoming connection. Is
> it a healthy thing to do? Will it overflow your OS buffers and screw with
> the machine in general or will TCP handle it graciously?

I have limited access to the messages on the list at them moment, so I'm
not sure if I am answering the right question.  Does this have to do
with a node accepting data from a faster connection and streaming it out
a slower one?

If so, there is no problem.  This happens all the time.  For example,
consider an old/slow system on a fast network downloading a file from a
fast server using ftp.  The old system will receive packets faster
than it can process them and store the data.  The TCP receive window for
that connection will fill up and the sender will stop sending data until
the window opens.

Any system that can't handle this is seriously broken.


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