Tru64 pipe buffer size

From: Iain Barker (ibarker@aastra.com)
Date: Wed Apr 06 2005 - 14:56:53 EDT

Managers,

Is there any way to alter the buffer size used for the pipe (|) command on Tru64?

We have a third-party tool which writes line-by-line to terminal device, but when its output is piped it seems to be buffering the data in chunks of approx 4KB at a guess.

For example, assuming each line represents ~1.5K of data:

./foobar
a
b
c
d
e
f
end of data

./foobar | tee outfile
a
b
c
<20 minute wait>
d
e
f
end of data

thanks,
        Iain

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