TypeError: Cannot call method 'packet' of null

[ecdeveloper]

Very often I'm getting the following error (see the stacktrace) when running the benchmark. It could happen even on a small number of users (30-50 users).

TypeError: Cannot call method 'packet' of null
at Socket.packet (/my/dir/node_modules/socket.io-client/lib/socket.js:290:22)
at SocketNamespace.packet (/my/dir/node_modules/socket.io-client/lib/namespace.js:64:17)
at SocketNamespace.emit (/my/dir/node_modules/socket.io-client/lib/namespace.js:113:17)

[michetti]

Hi, this project is kind of old already, but I will take a look and maybe update it to the newest versions of node and socket.IO. I was also having some problems with 50 users or so (mostly lost connections)...

Keep in mind that I'm not that experienced with Socket.IO or benchmarks in general, so my implementation is probably not the best one.

[ecdeveloper]

ok, thanks :)

[michetti]

Hey ecdeveloper, I'm sorry, but I've been very busy these days...
I will probably be able to take a look a this next week...

[ecdeveloper]

Ok, great! Still waiting for a new release :)

[WasserX]

Hi. I'm not using your project, but doing a benchmark for my app I found the same problem in socket.io-client so I opened an issue there. Maybe it's useful for you too?

socketio/socket.io-client#440