Re: sssvlv

>> When using the sssvlv overlay how does the client tell the server that the > sort request can be thrown away, so that sort requests don't hang around until > sssvlv-max or sssvlv-maxpercon are exceeded? > > There is no official mechanism for this. This is a flaw in the Sorting/VLV > specification. For Paged Results you simply send a followup request with > pagesize set to zero, but that doesn't apply for VLV. > > I believe in our current implementation, if you send a new Paged Results > request on a connection that has VLVs outstanding, one of the VLVs will be > aborted. Unfortunately, if you have multiple VLVs outstanding, there's no way > to determine which one gets aborted. (Apparently this was overlooked when > patching the overlay to allow multiple VLVs on a connection...) Thanks for the info. Is it the case that sort requests are associated with a particular connection?

> From my testing it seems that a sort request will remain active in the server evenif the client disconnects, which doesn't seem right.