On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Georg Lippitsch wrote:

> Is there any recent research for a good value for CURL_MAX_WRITE_SIZE?

No. There was only very sloppy research done in the dawn of time, and then it
was mostly focused on the serious problems shown on Windows back then.

> The reason why I ask is that I ran into a serious performance issue using
> the default value of 16384. On a 2Mbit/s UMTS/HSUPA connection, less than
> half the bandwidth was used. Setting CURL_MAX_WRITE_SIZE to 40960 fixed the
> problem.

Wow. I figure this calls for some further research into this area. What was
the target platform/OS version you spotted this on?

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  / daniel.haxx.se