[icecast-dev] PATCH: increase network congestion resilience

[Michael Smith]

On Friday 17 January 2003 23:29, Ricardo Galli wrote:
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> Hi,
> 	find a patch which is an update to a patch sent months ago. Before it was
> in net/sock.c, now I moved it to format.c, so net CVS module is not
> affected. It polls the socket before trying to send() any byte to check
> if the TCP buffers are full due to network congestion.

Why? This should be no different from doing the send() (and handling it 
failing correctly, which I think we do), except you're throwing in lots more 
syscalls, thus lowering efficiency.

Calling send will not, in itself, cause client disconnections just because it 
couldn't send anything.

Mike
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