Re: question on select: How big can the empty buffer space be before select returns ready-to-write?

From: Ben Greear (greearb@candelatech.com)
Date: Mon Dec 10 2001 - 11:41:49 EST

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Alan Cox wrote:

>>* Ben Greear (greearb@candelatech.com) wrote:
>>
>>>For instance, it appears that select will return that a socket is
>>>writable when there is, say 8k of buffer space in it. However, if
>>>I'm sending 32k UDP packets, this still causes me to drop packets
>>>due to a lack of resources...
>>>
>>udp has a fixed 8k max payload. did you try breaking up your packets?
>>
>
> UDP has a 64K - headers max payload.

Yes, and I am writing code to specifically try out large UDP
packet sizes, so limiting myself to a certain size is not at
all useful in this case....

Thanks,
Ben

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