how big is a pipe?

Brent P. Callaghan brent at poseidon.UUCP
Sun Oct 6 01:40:24 AEST 1985


>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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