On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 1:12 PM, An dreas <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
> On Tuesday, January 22, 2013 12:26:18 PM UTC+1, Ben Noordhuis wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 10:46 AM, An dreas <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> > Currently I need to set SO_RCVBUF way higher on dgram-sockets I use
>> > combined
>> > with multicast...
>>
>> Why is that?
>>
>> If you're experiencing packet loss, you will want to verify that the
>> issue is really on your side.  If packets get lost in transit or
>> discarded because of failing checksums, a larger receive buffer won't
>> help.
>
>
> I know this very well :)
> In my scenario there are several thousands of packets per second, so a
> bigger buffer leads to fewer drops in case of load spikes on the machine.
> Packetsize is nearly Ethernet-MTU. This Application runs for nearly 10 years
> now written in C and was regularly fine-tuned over the years, because of new
> possibilities like epoll, etc ... But it still needs SO_RECVBUF setted to
> about 512kb.
>
> Machines get faster over the time and now I can afford the speed-penalty to
> run it on top of node.js. I know it's not the common case, but it would help
> me.

If you open an issue, we'll look into it.  I can't make promises
regarding time lines though, we're stretched pretty thin.

If you're backed by a company, you may want to talk to our support
people.  We're not really in the business of bespoke work but this is
general purpose enough that it could be done on a contract basis.  If
you're interested, let me know and I'll get you in touch.

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