[omniORB] Question regarding giopMaxMsgSize

[Duncan Grisby]

On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 12:17 +0530, anirudh nair wrote:

> I want to know if a fixed amount of memory is allocated by ORB
>  depending on the value of giopMaxMsgSize. I have set the default value
>  of giopMaxMsgSize to 512MB. Does this mean that ORB will allocate
>  512MB of memory in advance for the application or does it only mean
>  that the maximum data that can be transferred per call is 512MB?

No, omniORB doesn't allocate a buffer based on giopMaxMsgSize. It never
allocates a buffer that big -- it either uses 8K buffers, or directly
marshals data from application buffers.

Cheers,

Duncan.

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