At 02:57 PM 1/11/02, Kenneth Porter wrote: >On Fri, 2002-01-11 at 08:11, Jesus Cea Avion wrote: > > > This timeout is not for message sent, but per "write" syscall. > > > > There is a problem, nevertheless: efficiency. If you do a "signal" and > > two "alarm" per "write", your CPU usage will goes up. We should take > > some experiments here to measure real impact. > > > > With a 512 "chunk" write buffer, for example, a megabyte email will > > have, at least, 2048 "write" calls. > >How about wrapping the entire transaction, not the individual writes? >That would mean only one alarm and signal call for the entire megabyte.
That happens. I made some changes which I think are in 4.04 which help ensure that's the case. I run my server with SO_KEEPALIVE added as well, which may help in this regard. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Senie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Amaranth Networks Inc. http://www.amaranth.com
