Pendingmessages

Richard Miller wow at together.net
Mon Mar 5 10:34:47 EST 2007


Yes.... that was exactly it. We were using a non-blocking transfer,  
and pending messages did interfere with it.
Richard


On Mar 5, 2007, at 8:32 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Richard Miller wrote:
>
> > On Mar 2, 2007, at 1:50 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> >> Pending messages are only sent at idle, and "lock messages" no
> >> longer has effect once idle hits should there should be no  
> conflict.
> >>
> > We discovered that the pending messages were the source of our file
> > transferring problem. I don't know what the doc's say or when these
> > messages are supposed to be sent, but I do know they greatly  
> effected
> > our file transferring routine, interrupting it at seemingly random
> > times. When we paused them (using a variation on Key Ray's
> > suggestion), the transfer process began working reliably. Perhaps
> > this is a fault in the pending messages system that should be looked
> > into.
>
> Possibly, or the root cause may lie with libURL, or with the way  
> libURL is used.
>
> While some libURL calls are blocking, most are asynchronous. If you  
> were using any of the non-blocking calls all bets are off with  
> regard to pendingMessages, since messages from libURL may easily  
> become interleaved with your own.
>
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