Small buffers for recv()

[Nikolaj Thygesen]

Hi,

     I'm currently writing an application which passes data between 
sub-programs through non-blocking sockets. Today I experimented (for 
testing purposes) with using buffers of different sizes for recv(). When 
I do:

     recv(fd, reinterpret_cast<char *>(buffer), size_of_buffer, 0);

... with *size_of_buffer* being e.g. 100 I get loads of EAGAIN's, but if 
I use e.g. 5000 everything works fine. I do understand why performance 
suffers, but the many EAGAIN's puzzle me a bit - what is the problem? Is 
there some way of detecting the optimal size to use? Google didn't bring 
me any closer to an answer.

     br - Nikolaj

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