Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 26 May 2008 16:15:41 +0200 (CEST) | | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | | Subject | Re: Pipe buffers' limit of 16 * 4K |
On Saturday 2008-05-24 02:19, Fausto Richetti Blanco wrote:
>
> I'm working with a 2.6.9 kernel (ok, I know it's quite old) and
>faced a problem with the 4K (one page) buffer limit for the pipes.
>I've found that in the 2.6.11 the pipes' buffers were changed to a
>circular list of pages which increased this limit to 16 * 4K. This
>limit is hardcoded here /usr/src/linux/include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h:6
>#define PIPE_BUFFERS (16)
>
> Is there a reason for this not to be an adjustable parameter
>(eg.: by an ulimit in the userspace) ?
Jens had patches to adjust the pipe buffer sizes dynamically via an
ioctl, perhaps these should really be pushed? I also had interest in
having these in the kernel for toying with minibuffer audio processing.
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