Troubleshooting a high-load scenario

[Ulf Wiger (AL/EAB)]

Joel Reymont wrote:
>
> I use selective receive and used to have no flow control in 
> my socket reader. It would just read packet length, read 
> packet and send the whole packet to its parent. Message 
> queues were filling up when I was doing that so I only read 
> the next network message once the current one has been processed.

Have you tried setting your socket reader to high priority?

  process_flag(priority, high).


I usually set middle-man processes to high priority since 
they don't originate any load anyway. They should do their
thing and get out of the way as quickly as possible.

Regards,
Uffe