From 68d55152b9bac0e3154d9c23efa450642c147832 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stephen Birarda <commit@birarda.com>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 13:28:53 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] flush after each call to writeDatagram

---
 libraries/shared/src/NodeList.cpp | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/libraries/shared/src/NodeList.cpp b/libraries/shared/src/NodeList.cpp
index cda2963f53..0cc343b460 100644
--- a/libraries/shared/src/NodeList.cpp
+++ b/libraries/shared/src/NodeList.cpp
@@ -171,7 +171,13 @@ qint64 NodeList::writeDatagram(const QByteArray& datagram, const HifiSockAddr& d
     ++_numCollectedPackets;
     _numCollectedBytes += datagram.size();
     
-    return _nodeSocket.writeDatagram(datagramCopy, destinationSockAddr.getAddress(), destinationSockAddr.getPort());
+    qint64 bytesWritten = _nodeSocket.writeDatagram(datagramCopy,
+                                                    destinationSockAddr.getAddress(),
+                                                    destinationSockAddr.getPort());
+    
+    // ask the underlying QUdpSocket to flush its buffers to avoid filling them up
+    _nodeSocket.flush();
+    return bytesWritten;
     
 }