[erlang-questions] R1502 ssl dropping byte(s)?

Dmitry Kolesnikov dmkolesnikov@REDACTED
Fri Nov 2 18:49:53 CET 2012


Hello,

I also had an issue with a first byte in ssl.
Please check this thread: 
http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2012-August/068632.html

This could be a reason for your case as well.

- Dmitry

On Nov 2, 2012, at 7:33 PM, sasa wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Today I have migrated my production servers to R15B02 (previously they ran on R14).
> Generally, everything works fine. However, I do notice a strange behavior occasionally.
> I'm not sure if Erlang is to blame, but it's a strange coincidence that this started occurring after the migration, and system is in production for almost two years.
> 
> In my system, I am constantly fetching some data from the external provider via ssl. The code is roughly following:
> 
> loop(Socket) ->
>    ssl:recv(Socket, 0, 5000),
>    ...
>    loop(Socket).
> 
> After switching to R15, I have noticed that occasionally, a byte gets "lost". This always happens after 5 or 10 seconds which leads me to suspicion, that possibly some race condition occurs in ssl.
> Could it be that the timeout occurs just as the bytes start to arrive, and the first one is discarded?
> Again, I didn't notice this behavior on R14.
> 
> Best regards,
> Sasa
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