Re: question on select: How big can the empty buffer space be before select returns ready-to-write?
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 10 Dec 2001 08:38:18 +0000 (GMT)
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> * 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.
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