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From: Ad van den Broek <advandenbroek.nl@gmail.com>
To: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org
Subject: PIPE questions for Linux 2.4 setup
Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 16:56:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9f924d250905210756l5db654abkf9c9fbc4170717ac@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Dear C/Linux friends,

We wanted to increase PIPE_SIZE (from 4K to 8K on linux 2.4 on an AMD
LX800 system).
The result is a segmentation error as soon as Read() is reading more
data than 4K
from the pipe.
So pipe data seems to be damaged.
If we change PIPE_SIZE back tot 4K everything is running fine.
Question-1: Any suggestion to prevent this segmentation error ?

* PIPE_SIZE
If you look in the linux kernel code for PIPE_SIZE
("include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h") you find:
#define PIPE_SIZE PAGE_SIZE
I don't know if #define PIPE_SIZE PAGE_SIZE is necessary or just a
simple shortcut.
Question-2: Is it OK if PIPE_SIZE > PAGE_SIZE ?

* PAGE_SIZE
Question-3: Is it OK to increase Page_size on linux 2.4 on AMD LX800 system ?
Which aspects are limiting the user to config the PAGE_SIZE ?

-- 

With best regards,
Ad van den Broek

             reply	other threads:[~2009-05-21 14:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-21 14:56 Ad van den Broek [this message]
2009-05-21 19:51 ` PIPE questions for Linux 2.4 setup Glynn Clements

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