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| author | Stefano Sabatini <stefasab@gmail.com> | 2012-07-18 16:56:11 +0200 |
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| committer | Stefano Sabatini <stefasab@gmail.com> | 2012-07-19 22:31:41 +0200 |
| commit | e1422940f2edcb2518cc9e7da2a8206f420511b1 (patch) | |
| tree | d273755016b5f6aafb2d0ca7a18120e1239e82d8 | |
| parent | 6b80f7584866271a8c1a1d4665e3c1c6d0a14d9a (diff) | |
doc/protocols: add a note regarding the circular RX UDP buffer
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/protocols.texi | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/protocols.texi b/doc/protocols.texi index 1321075af6..74c15f6932 100644 --- a/doc/protocols.texi +++ b/doc/protocols.texi @@ -556,6 +556,11 @@ udp://@var{hostname}:@var{port}[?@var{options}] @var{options} contains a list of &-separated options of the form @var{key}=@var{val}. +In case threading is enabled on the system, a circular buffer is used +to store the incoming data, which allows to reduce loss of data due to +UDP socket buffer overruns. The @var{fifo_size} and +@var{overrun_nonfatal} options are related to this buffer. + The list of supported options follows. @table @option |