Messages in this thread |  | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: select() bug | Date | 2 Nov 2000 15:53:29 -0800 |
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Followup to: <3A01FC44.8A43FE8B@iname.com> By author: Paul Marquis <pmarquis@iname.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Okay, I see your point, thanks. A couple of comments/questions: > > - Does this make sense with devices with small kernel buffers? From > my experimentation, pipes on Linux have a 4K buffer and tend to be > read and written very quickly. > > - If I'm correct that pipes have a 4K kernel buffer, then writing 1 > byte shouldn't cause this situation, as the buffer is well more than > half empty. Is this still a bug? > > Semantic issues aside, since Apache does the test I mentionned earlier > to determine child status and since it could be misled, should this > feature be turned off? > > Thanks for your input. >
Has anyone considered the possibility of expanding the buffer of high-traffic pipes?
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