Re: [PATCH 5.1] zread: read files in 4k chunks

From	Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
Newsgroups	gnu.bash.bug
Subject	Re: [PATCH 5.1] zread: read files in 4k chunks
Date	2020-06-22 12:35 -0400
Organization	ITS, Case Western Reserve University
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On 6/22/20 1:53 AM, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Currently a static sized buffer is used for reading files. At the moment
> it is extremely small, making parsing of large files extremely slow.
> Increase this to 4k for improved performance. 

I bumped it up to 1024 initially for testing.

> This also allows reading
> files like /dev/kmsg on Linux, which will error if the read buffer is
> too small.

What is the minimum size for those reads?

Chet


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