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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
 idea. While there's no architectural limitation with regards of the
 number of transferred messages or their sizes, the code is not
 number of transferred messages or their sizes, the code is not
 optimised and it would probably be very slow.
 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.