how big is a pipe?

[David M. Haynes]

> >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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>
This may fall into the area of fuzzy thinking, but
what's wrong with this arguement?
To find out how big a pipe is, grab your handy manual and see how
many pipes you can have open at one time.
Remember that a pipe takes an inode so, this number
times the size of your system's blocks should give the maximum
capacity of a pipe. No?

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