Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 22:13:37 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is BUFSIZ too small ? Message-ID: <98907.1074546817@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Jan 2004 13:11:34 PST." <200401192111.i0JLBYVk004060@apollo.backplane.com>
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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 :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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