From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:22:37 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <43de5c2167c0a4851aeafaa07a0b982d@kw.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: References: <5fa9fbfe115a9cd5a81d0feefe413192@quintile.net> <4fa1305e0f56a0ef89c2e05320fa5997@coraid.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] A simple experiment Topicbox-Message-UUID: 125106b2-ead6-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > what happens if the consumer is slow and the Rstream writer > blocks? how do you stop all the other replies on the connection > waiting for the consumer to get on with it? the tcp window closes. and the producer blocks. > in fact, how do you stop it deadlocking if the consumer is in > fact waiting for one of those replies? i don't think i understand this. i think Tstream would be very dependant on the transport layer. that's the part that makes me nervous. all the world's a tcp? - erik