[nanomsg] Re: Review of mangos

  • From: Garrett D'Amore <garrett@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: nanomsg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Paul Colomiets <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 02:24:30 -0700

On May 7, 2014 at 2:16:37 AM, Paul Colomiets (paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
Hi, 

On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Martin Sustrik <sustrik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
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> On 06/05/14 18:52, Gonzalo Diethelm wrote: 
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>> Line 554: why is it subscribing to every possible message by 
>> default? This could be a bad idea... 
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> Yes, we've seen this in real world. The subscriber gets hit by a ton 
> of traffic before it's able to unsubscribe. It may never recover from 
> the blow. 
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I think it's because nanocat does it. And the reason is because 
nanocat is just a simple utility to test how things work. And the 
simpler it is to use, the better. I.e. what do you think default 
should be? No subscriptions? The ``nanocat --sub`` is useless without 
subscriptions (note, unlike with raw sockets, you can't add 
subscriptions on the fly in nanocat). Require ``--subscribe`` 
argument? I think it's too verbose for simple cases of debugging. All 
in all, if you really connect with nanocat to some huge production 
system, with millions of record per second, you are probably smart 
enough to add ``--subscribe`` argument. 


Yes.  macat is modeled 1:1 to nanocat.  Its not intended for “production” use, 
but merely as an exploratory toy and to validation tool to prove that nanomsg 
and mangos can interoperate.

        - Garrett


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