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To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 22:13:37 +0100
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Subject: Re: Is BUFSIZ too small ? 
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In message <200401192111.i0JLBYVk004060@apollo.backplane.com>, Matthew Dillon w
rites:
>
>:I noticed that we still have BUFSIZ in stdio.h defined to only 1024,
>:and wonder if that should be increased these days.
>:
>:Is there anybody who could devise and run some benchmarks to find
>:out what effect it would have to increase it to for instance 4096 ?
>:
>:-- 
>:Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
>:phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
>
>    Very few programs use BUFSIZ for the actual I/O ops [...]

I share many of your doubts, but I would still like to see some
benchmarks :-)

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Poul-Henning Kamp       | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20
phk@FreeBSD.ORG         | TCP/IP since RFC 956
FreeBSD committer       | BSD since 4.3-tahoe    
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