Re:How a 20-year-old kernel feature helped USDS improve VA’s...
by rasz on Saturday July 01, 2017 @05:34AM
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>dropping connections would cause the application to lock up / crash
plenty of programs/libraries do that, for example ffmpeg, and by extension MPlayer. It so happens Google/YT has anti resource starvation measures in place on their content servers in case someone opens TCP session and keeps it paused with ZeroWindow packets for over 3 minutes. Guess how MPlayer handles/signals pausing a stream :(
plenty of programs/libraries do that, for example ffmpeg, and by extension MPlayer. It so happens Google/YT has anti resource starvation measures in place on their content servers in case someone opens TCP session and keeps it paused with ZeroWindow packets for over 3 minutes. Guess how MPlayer handles/signals pausing a stream :(