On Mon, 12 Feb 2018, Biju N wrote:

> Looking at the strace when it is run on a bare metal and a VM there is a
> difference in the file read/send buffer size. On bare metal it uses 16 KB
> and on VM it uses 8KB even though CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE is not set explicitly.
> Process on bare metal seems to use the expected default of 16 KB and on VM
> it seems to be using a calculated optimal value. Is this the expected
> behavior?

No, that's not expected. libcurl uses the same fixed buffer size for all
platforms and builds - unless the application changes it.

When I straced the curl tool just now to check how it looks, I could see it
use a 100KB buffer in the recvfrom() call.

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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