On 03:10 pm, darren@ontrenet.com wrote:

Hi, I received some great advice in the past about using Int32StringReceiver to be able to send a reliable message of bytes from the client to the server without hassling with unordered or partial messages. Seems to work.

But I have one problem. My client iterates over a file sending 7MB byte messages to transport.sendString() to a server. What i see is that the client seems to buffer or wait to send those. After a few hundred sendStrings() still the server has not received one message. The result is my client gets throttled bad in terms of disk and memory. After all my sendString writes, then eventually the server receives the first message. But my computer is 100% max'd out. highly undesirable.

What I want is for each on-the-wire send to complete, before sendString returns so resources can be managed properly.

Is there _any_ way in Twisted to do this?

You want to make your client use the producer/consumer APIs. You can find some docs here: http://twistedmatrix.com/documents/current/core/howto/producers.html Here's a simple example of what you might do: class SendSomeStuff(Int32StringReceiver): def connectionMade(self): self.transport.registerProducer(self, False) def resumeProducing(self): self.sendString(self.someFileObj.read(2 ** 16)) This is missing error handling some of the other required parts of the producer interface, but it should get you started. Jean-Paul