On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 03:30:26PM -0500, Brian Utterback wrote: > Nicolas Williams wrote: > >On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 03:05:05PM -0500, Brian Utterback wrote: > >>2. As far as I know, no other IPC method imposes this kind of flow > >>control. Why single out TCP? > > > >Pipes certainly impose flow control! > > The important point was "this kind". Of course you need flow-control. > (we do get a lot of customer calls because pipes have a fixed buffer > size on Solaris though. Has this been fixed?)
Ah, sorry. Yeah, I don't know of any IPC with that sort of flow control. I'm not sure why this needed to be added at all. If the issue was a consumer that is perenially behind the producer, then reduce the consumer's buffer size. Also, we don't really have bandwidth and latency numbers that can be used to compute the bandwidth latency product. Nico -- _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
