Maximum transmission buffer size?

[Iain McGinniss]

Just a quick question, which should hopefully clarify an aspect of  
Netty's philosophy for me. Say I have a network connection that is  
capable of sending 64KB/s. I have an open TCP channel in Netty, and I  
write to this channel at a rate of 128KB/s. This obviously results in  
a growing queue of data at a rate of 64KB/s. Will Netty ever refuse to  
enqueue my data for transmission, or discard any buffers passed to  
write(), or will it eventually just throw a Java OutOfMemoryError,  
when there is no more heap space left to store the queue of written  
(but untransmitted) channel buffers?

Iain