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Date:      Fri, 27 Jun 1997 17:41:08 +1000
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        bmcgover@cisco.com, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Clists limited to 1024 bytes?
Message-ID:  <199706270741.RAA17175@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>It appears that l_rint will stop passing characters up at 19200 at around 1K
>(or so t_rawq.cc states). Is there any way to safely increase this to around
>8K, or even 16K? The reason I ask is that the board I'm working with has an

No simple way.

>8K receive buffer, and I'd like (for the sake of efficiency), be able to move
>nearly a full buffer of data at once, but I seem to be limited by this number.

You don't want to do this.  At 19200 bps, an 8K buffer takes more than
4 seconds to fill.  A latency of 4 seconds is normally about 400 times
too large.  At such a low speed, there is normally nothing better than
delivering input in tiny bursts of 19-20 characters every 10 msec.

Bruce



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