[Twisted-Python] When do calls to transport.write() block ?

[Itamar Shtull-Trauring]

On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 11:12, Stefan Behnel wrote:

> If a server starts sending as fast as it can, what will happen to the
> output queue? Will Twisted just eat up all memory with buffers? Will
> it start blocking? Will it open up a thread? What will it do?

It will eat up all your memory. You should, therefore, not do that.
Instead, use producers and consumers (this is e.g. how the web server
sends large files):

http://itamarst.org/writings/etech04/twisted_internet-101.html

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