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Re: server flow control option / my sig 11 problem last month


From: Larry Jones
Subject: Re: server flow control option / my sig 11 problem last month
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 11:18:13 -0500 (EST)

Andy Jones writes:
> 
> So it would appear that I had flow control turned on and it did not help?

Correct.

> My (ignorant) reading of the flow control description in INSTALL
> suggested that it might stop a memory overrun.
> Does that mean that there are circumstances where flow control doesn't?

Of course.  Flow control only limits memory used to buffer the client/
server communication, and then only between files.  Thus, a single file
can be buffered in its entirety, even if it is much larger than the flow
control high-water mark.  CVS also allocates memory for lots of other
things, like processing RCS files.

-Larry Jones

I've never seen a sled catch fire before. -- Hobbes




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