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

Chris Wright (chris@wirex.com)
Sun, 9 Dec 2001 23:33:49 -0800


* 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?

cheers,
-chris
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