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Subject: Re: TCP memory pressure question
From: Gianni Tedesco <gianni@ecsc.co.uk>
To: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
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On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 21:34, David Schwartz wrote:
> 	When a Linux machine has reached the tcp_mem limit, what will happen to=20
> 'write's on non-blocking sockets? Will they block until more TCP memory i=
s=20
> available? Will they return an error code? ENOMEM?

from write(2) man page.

EAGAIN Non-blocking I/O has been selected using O_NONBLOCK and the write
would block.

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