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Subject: Re: BUFSIZ = 1024, still ?
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In message <5030033B.4060705@feral.com>, Matthew Jacob writes:
>On 8/18/2012 1:32 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> Shouldn't we at least increase it to pagesize ?
>>
>What data suggests to you it would be better at pagesize?

The number of system calls to fwrite() a big file ?

What evidence would there be that it would hurt ?

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