Platonides wrote:
The reading process should probably have higher
priority than the
colector. Losing UDP packets is better than fulling the pipe (/me
wonders what happens when it gets full. Write failed? SIGPIPE? Nuclear
meltdown?).
The pipe write will block, the collection process will yield, and the
analysis process will gain control and empty the buffer. Not nuclear
meltdown, just some microseconds lost. Losing UDP packets is almost
certainly worse than that, but luckily the UDP receive buffer is quite a
bit larger, and it's configurable at runtime.
-- Tim Starling