linux-kernel - Re: Pipe buffers' limit of 16 * 4K

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.1.10.0805291633000.19264@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>
Date:	Thu, 29 May 2008 16:36:32 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>
To:	Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@...tron.nl>
cc:	Fausto Richetti Blanco <fausto.blanco@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, riel@...hat.com
Subject: Re: Pipe buffers' limit of 16 * 4K


On Thursday 2008-05-29 15:19, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
>On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 10:00 -0300, Fausto Richetti Blanco wrote:
>
>Why not use a socketpair() instead of a pipe(). You can adjust the size
>with setsockopt SO_SNDBUF/SO_RCVBUF (see man socket(7))

Nah, if there's lots of POST requests, and a large buffer for
each of it, you may end up running into allocation failures.
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