MAX_PLUGINOUTPUT_LENGTH
Jason Marshall
jasonm at kelman.com
Wed Aug 27 16:33:40 CEST 2003
> > I would like to know what do I risk if I recompile nagios with a greater
> > value than 352 for MAX_PLUGINOUTPUT_LENGTH ?
>
> The result is platform specific. 352 is the lowest common denominator for
> maximum pipe buffer size. Using larger values can cause data from
> different plugins to be interleaved - and then none of the data would be
> understood...
On Solaris, you can safely bump this up, as it uses 5120-byte atomic reads
and writes to named pipes, as opposed to Linux's 512-byte atomic
operations on named pipes.
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