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authorDan Fandrich <dan@coneharvesters.com>2010-02-10 21:17:53 +0000
committerDan Fandrich <dan@coneharvesters.com>2010-02-10 21:17:53 +0000
commit99f366adf92e940ea8178da35c4189f5206bd716 (patch)
tree53667f48254d3f9af17b5d9f974d3244c65207a3
parentd20a2469eab1d708192be6cac3e70f7e8d52d9cf (diff)
Mention the minimum size of CURL_MAX_WRITE_SIZE
-rw-r--r--include/curl/curl.h4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/curl/curl.h b/include/curl/curl.h
index 3f5c49a27..155913af4 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