On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Qiao Yang wrote:
Does anyone know what possible scenarios may cause the Unix Domain DGRAM
socket to lose packet? We know, in theory, it is unreliable, but in reality,
I rarely see packet loss happens to this type of socket. Unfortunately, I
believe it happened a few times in the last couple of months in a FreeBSD
5.3 box and I wasn't able to track down what the cause was.
One related question. Considering the following setup, client (socket_A)
send a packet to server (socket_B). If the sending buffer of socket_A is ok
but the receiving buffer of socket_B is full, will sendto() return error?
Yes -- there are several situations where packets can be lost. The most
typical one is that there is insufficient room in the receive buffer.
uipc_usrreq.c:uipc_send() calls sbappendaddr_locked() to append to the remote
receive socket:
if (space > sbspace(sb))
return (0);
uipc_send() converts this to ENOBUFS. Other loss scenarios include EMSGSIZE
if the message is too large. If sendto() is called with the flag
MSG_DONTWAIT, you can also get ENOBUFS due to mbuf allocator exhaustion.
Robert N M Watson
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