From 99f366adf92e940ea8178da35c4189f5206bd716 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Fandrich Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:17:53 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Mention the minimum size of CURL_MAX_WRITE_SIZE --- include/curl/curl.h | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/curl/curl.h b/include/curl/curl.h index 3f5c49a..155913a 100644 --- a/include/curl/curl.h +++ b/include/curl/curl.h @@ -177,7 +177,9 @@ typedef int (*curl_progress_callback)(void *clientp, /* Tests have proven that 20K is a very bad buffer size for uploads on Windows, while 16K for some odd reason performed a lot better. We do the ifndef check to allow this value to easier be changed at build - time for those who feel adventurous. */ + time for those who feel adventurous. The practical minimum is about + 400 bytes since libcurl uses a buffer of this size as a scratch area + (unrelated to network send operations). */ #define CURL_MAX_WRITE_SIZE 16384 #endif -- 2.7.4