Bug in stream_socket_server()?
| From: | René Fournier | Date: | Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:18:36 +0000 |
| Subject: | Bug in stream_socket_server()? | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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"If you want a high speed socket server, use the low-level sockets instead (socket_create/bind/listen). The stream_socket_server version appears to have internal fixed 8k buffers that will overflow if you don't keep up by reading.
This is a serious problem if you an application that reads the socket for messages and then, say, saves the result in a database. The delay while it is busy processing means you can't read the data in time unless you get involved in muti-threading.
With the the low-level functions, the OS quietly buffers TCP/IP packets so there is no problem (tested on Windows XP Professional)."
( http://php.oregonstate.edu/manual/en/function.stream-socket-server.php#67837 )
Has anyone confirmed this? I am doing tests with a stripped-down multi-client socket server, wonder if this issue is causing some of the problems I've seen.
...Rene