[erlang-questions] Wondering on active TCP socket

[Juan Jose Comellas]

BTW, using {active, once} every time the process is ready to receive data
from the socket would avoid flooding the process' mailbox.


On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Nahuel Greco <ngreco@REDACTED> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Kaiduan Xie <kaiduanx@REDACTED> wrote:
> > For this case, I think that the flow control of underlying OS TCP
> > stack will kick in, and the sender can not send more packets. How the
> > system can be flooded with messages in erlang?
> >
>
> The flow control of the TCP stack will not kick in, because the OS
> process (the Erlang VM) already consumed the data from the TCP
> incoming buffer, that consumed data will sit in the controlling
> process message queue, inside the VM.
>
> Saludos,
> Nahuel Greco.
>
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