Actually you are right - I built a new libcurl with 4MB, but it didn't make
any difference. I'll have to dig deeper. Thanks for the response!

On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:

> On Thu, 8 Oct 2015, Sanchay Harneja wrote:
>
> We're using libcurl internally with guaranteed high bandwidth connections.
>> Is there a way to increase CURL_MAX_WRITE_SIZE to speed up data transfers?
>>
>
> Are you saying you're seeing a big increase in transfer speeds by doing
> that? If so, I would like to get informed by some numbers.
>
> If you're only asking how to increase it: it is (still) a build-time
> constant so you define it to something larger than 16K when you build
> libcurl.
>
> It was set to 16K once after some basic testing when no real differences
> could be seen with slightly larger buffers. For years we've discussed
> introducing some sort of dynamic scheme that would allow it to get larger
> when requested and especially for certain protocols.
>
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