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From: brent@poseidon.UUCP (Brent P. Callaghan)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: how big is a pipe?
Message-ID: <1298@poseidon.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 5-Oct-85 11:40:24 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct  5 11:40:24 1985
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>buffer size (typically 1024). However, on the 3b2 (and the ELXSI)
>which have 2048 byte buffers, you get quite interesting behavior
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
According to the 3b2 admin guide you must allow 1076 bytes
per buffer in the buffer pool.  I imagine that this is
1024 bytes of data + overhead.
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