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[2738] Write considerations

Michal 'vorner' Vaner 12 years ago
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@@ -176,3 +176,10 @@ messages or messages of several tens of megabytes is probably a bad
 idea. While there's no architectural limitation with regards of the
 number of transferred messages or their sizes, the code is not
 optimised and it would probably be very slow.
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+We currently expect the system not to be at heavy load. Therefore, we
+expect the daemon to keep up with clients sending messages. The
+libraries write in blocking mode, which is no problem if the
+expectation is true, as the write buffers will generally be empty and
+the write wouldn't block, but if it turns out it is not the case, we
+might need to reconsider.