[omniORB] Problem with large requests (WinNT)

[Duncan Grisby]

On Monday 19 July, "Clarke Brunt" wrote:

> Following up my own message (failure in tcpConnection.cc on WinNT attempting
> to call :send with a size of >12Mb approx):
> 
> I've experimentally added:
> 
> #ifdef __WIN32__
>   // Clarke Brunt, 19/7/2004, try smaller chunks
>   if (sz >= 0x400000) sz = 0x400000 - 8;
> #endif
> 
> i.e. similar to the #ifdef __VMS code that is there already, to make it send
> in 4Mb chunks. I'd never built OmniORB from source on Windows before, but
> was relatively painless. It now works fine.
> 
> Still, I'd appreciate knowing whether the failure I observed is due to some
> limitation on NT, or the confuguration of my machine, or what? If it
> _always_ happens, then something like my added code might usefully be
> included in the official source.

Can anyone confirm or deny that Windows has this limitation?

Cheers,

Duncan.

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