[HN Gopher] IPC Buffer Sizes ___________________________________________________________________ IPC Buffer Sizes Author : zdw Score : 17 points Date : 2021-11-16 04:51 UTC (2 days ago) (HTM) web link (www.netmeister.org) (TXT) w3m dump (www.netmeister.org) | throwaway984393 wrote: | IPC buffers are absolutely complicated and specific to the kernel | and IPC method. I've worked on several applications that required | various kernel tuning to perform well, and I still can't remember | how any of it works. You can't really just know how buffers are | going to work, because they might change in the next kernel | release. | | The only reliable way to understand the buffers affecting your | individual application, is to do functional performance testing. | You have to re-create the exact scenario you want to run "in | production", slam it with different kinds of way-too-big | requests, and record every facet of the system up to the point it | fails. Then you can do a deep dive to discover which part caused | a problem and tweak settings until it works as needed. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-11-18 23:01 UTC)