Re: Pipes and fd question. Large amounts of data.

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

In article <200501301115.59532.ods15@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Oded Shimon  <ods15@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>I have implemented this, but it has a major disadvantage - every 'write()' 
>only write 4k at a time, never more, because of how non-blocking pipes are 
>done. at 20,000 context switches a second, this method reaches barely 10mb a 
>second, if not less.

If you're using pipe(), you might want to try socketpair()
instead. You can setsockopt() SO_RCVBUF and SO_SNDBUF to
large values if you want.

Mike.

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