diff --git a/src/WebSocket/Adapter/Swoole.php b/src/WebSocket/Adapter/Swoole.php
index fc891e4..e211fbc 100644
--- a/src/WebSocket/Adapter/Swoole.php
+++ b/src/WebSocket/Adapter/Swoole.php
@@ -11,20 +11,60 @@
 
 class Swoole extends Adapter
 {
+    /**
+     * Bytes the reactor may hold per connection for a client that is not keeping up.
+     *
+     * Swoole's own default is SW_SOCKET_BUFFER_SIZE, 8MB per connection, so a server
+     * holding a few thousand connections can be asked for tens of gigabytes before it
+     * refuses anything. 512KB is roughly ten typical frames: enough to ride out a
+     * burst, small enough that stalled connections cannot exhaust a container.
+     */
+    public const DEFAULT_SOCKET_BUFFER_SIZE = 524288;
+
     protected Server $server;
 
     protected string $host;
 
     protected int $port;
 
-    public function __construct(string $host = '0.0.0.0', int $port = 80)
-    {
+    /**
+     * @param int $socketBufferSize Bytes the reactor may hold per connection for a
+     *   client that is not keeping up. Pass 0 to keep Swoole's 8MB-per-connection
+     *   default.
+     *
+     *   A client that stops draining makes the reactor buffer its undelivered frames
+     *   in process memory, up to this size, while push() still reports success. At
+     *   Swoole's default, 300 non-draining connections held 2.27GB -- all of it in the
+     *   reactor rather than the PHP worker, so PHP's memory_limit never notices. Total
+     *   exposure is size x connections, and push() starts returning false for a
+     *   connection that is over, which send() turns into a close.
+     *
+     *   Taken at construction because it has to be applied to the listen port before
+     *   start(): ListenPort captures Socket::default_buffer_size when it is built, and
+     *   the server-level socket_buffer_size option only mutates that static afterwards,
+     *   so setting it there silently does nothing.
+     */
+    public function __construct(
+        string $host = '0.0.0.0',
+        int $port = 80,
+        int $socketBufferSize = self::DEFAULT_SOCKET_BUFFER_SIZE,
+    ) {
         parent::__construct($host, $port);
 
         $this->server = new Server($this->host, $this->port);
 
         // Set maximum connections to Swoole's limit of 1 Million
         $this->config['max_connection'] = 1_000_000;
+
+        if ($socketBufferSize > 0) {
+            // On the port, not the server -- see the constructor docblock.
+            $this->server->ports[0]->set(['socket_buffer_size' => $socketBufferSize]);
+            // send_yield is a server-level option. Left on, an over-budget push
+            // suspends and the worker accumulates the backlog against PHP's
+            // memory_limit, fatalling the worker instead of shedding the one
+            // connection that is behind.
+            $this->config['send_yield'] = false;
+        }
     }
 
     public function start(): void
@@ -47,14 +87,24 @@ public function send(array $connections, string $message): void
 
         foreach ($connections as $connection) {
             go(function () use ($connection, $message, $flags) {
-                if ($this->server->exist($connection) && $this->server->isEstablished($connection)) {
-                    $this->server->push(
-                        $connection,
-                        $message,
-                        SWOOLE_WEBSOCKET_OPCODE_TEXT,
-                        $flags
-                    );
-                } else {
+                if (!$this->server->exist($connection) || !$this->server->isEstablished($connection)) {
+                    $this->server->close($connection);
+
+                    return;
+                }
+
+                $pushed = $this->server->push(
+                    $connection,
+                    $message,
+                    SWOOLE_WEBSOCKET_OPCODE_TEXT,
+                    $flags
+                );
+
+                // Only reachable when the buffer is capped (see $socketBufferSize).
+                // The client is far enough behind that its output buffer is full;
+                // dropping the frame would leave it silently out of sync, so close
+                // and let it reconnect from a known state.
+                if (!$pushed) {
                     $this->server->close($connection);
                 }
             });