"Karthik Gurusamy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |If all you had is just two processes, P and C and the amount of data |flowing is less (say on the order of 10's of buffer-size ... e.g. 20 |times 4k), *a lot* may not be right quantifier.
Have pipe buffer sizes really not been scaled up with RAM sizes? 4K on a 4M machine is sensible, but on my 1G machine, up to 1M might be ok. tjr -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
