[Twisted-Python] Limiting the number of connections

[Miha Valencic]

Itamar, I agree. After reading Adi Roiban's proposed solution I think
it is the correct way to handle such scenarios.

Regards,
 Miha.

On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Itamar Turner-Trauring
<itamar at itamarst.org> wrote:
> On 12/09/2012 05:31 AM, Miha Valencic wrote:
>> No, the server shouldn't accept() the socket after n connections are
>> opened(). But see previous paragraph.
>
> You can stop accept()ing by calling stopReading() on the returned port
> object:
>
> port = reactor.listenTCP(....)
> port.stopReading()
>
> And start again by calling startReading().
>
> However:
>   - When you are accept()ing, it will accept() a few at a time.
>   - Even if you stop accept()ing, the OS will still do TCP handshakes,
> approximately up to a limit determined by one of the arguments passed to
> listenTCP.
>   - After hitting the limit, clients will get connection refused, IIRC.
>
> In general it's better to do a protocol-level solution, as Adi Roiban
> suggested.
>
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