[whatwg] Workers and queue of events

[Robert O'Callahan]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Dmitry Titov <dimich at chromium.org> wrote:

> Pages communicate with their workers (dedicated) via queue of events<http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-workers/current-work/#the-queue> .
> What happens if the queue gets more and more events queued (as a result of
> postMessage or timer callbacks) and the worker thread does not consume them
> fast enough?
>
>    - setInterval can skip posting a callback if the previously posted one
>    was not yet consumed.
>    - setTimeout is probably ok as it is but if the worker script adds them
>    in a loop it can be a problem.
>    - postMessage could somehow indicate a queue overflow and ignore the
>    attempt to post a message if the queue length exceeds some specific
>    threshold.
>
>
> Basically, the queue probably should have a limit on it and once the limit
> is reached, the queue-based operations should start to fail, optionally with
> some indication.
>

How is this different from any other out-of-memory situation? Web APIs
generally don't specify OOM behaviour.

Rob
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