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Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 17:27:45 -0800
From: Nivedita Singhvi <niv@us.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: TCP memory pressure question
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>         When a Linux machine has reached the tcp_mem limit, what will happen to 
> 'write's on non-blocking sockets? Will they block until more TCP memory is 
> available? Will they return an error code? ENOMEM?
> 
>         If it varies by kernel version, details about different versions would be 
> extremely helpful. I'm most interested in late 2.4 kernels.
> 
>         Thanks in advance.
> 

Returns EAGAIN.
Fairly static ~late 2.4.

thanks,
Nivedita
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