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Re: Running Handles not becoming 0

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:47:47 +0200 (CEST)

On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Shivanand wrote:

> CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT = 0

> But for scenario 1, the connection never terminates for the above server.
> running handles never become 0. If I increase the CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT =
> 1 then the connection terminates in 20 seconds. I am running my client
> application on windows.
>
> Please let me know the reason for such behaviour. Is CURLOPT_LOW_SPEED_LIMIT
> = 0 a wrong option for curl easy handle that resides in multi handle stack?

I think that's because the check in the code does the equivalent of:

         if(current_speed < low_speed_limit)

So thus it won't be below 0, but it will be below 1, during 20 seconds.

see lib/speedcheck.c:Curl_speedcheck() for details.

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  / daniel.haxx.se
Received on 2009-08-27