CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE.md (2146B)
1 --- 2 c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al. 3 SPDX-License-Identifier: curl 4 Title: CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE 5 Section: 3 6 Source: libcurl 7 See-also: 8 - CURLOPT_MAXFILESIZE (3) 9 - CURLOPT_MAX_RECV_SPEED_LARGE (3) 10 - CURLOPT_UPLOAD_BUFFERSIZE (3) 11 - CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION (3) 12 Protocol: 13 - All 14 Added-in: 7.10 15 --- 16 17 # NAME 18 19 CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE - receive buffer size 20 21 # SYNOPSIS 22 23 ~~~c 24 #include <curl/curl.h> 25 26 CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE, long size); 27 ~~~ 28 29 # DESCRIPTION 30 31 Pass a long specifying your preferred *size* (in bytes) for the receive buffer 32 in libcurl. The main point of this would be that the write callback gets 33 called more often and with smaller chunks. Secondly, for some protocols, there 34 is a benefit of having a larger buffer for performance. 35 36 This is just treated as a request, not an order. You cannot be guaranteed to 37 actually get the given size. 38 39 This buffer size is by default *CURL_MAX_WRITE_SIZE* (16kB). The maximum 40 buffer size allowed to be set is *CURL_MAX_READ_SIZE* (10MB). The minimum 41 buffer size allowed to be set is 1024. 42 43 DO NOT set this option on a handle that is currently used for an active 44 transfer as that may lead to unintended consequences. 45 46 The maximum size was 512kB until 7.88.0. 47 48 Starting in libcurl 8.7.0, there is just a single transfer buffer allocated 49 per multi handle. This buffer is used by all easy handles added to a multi 50 handle no matter how many parallel transfers there are. The buffer remains 51 allocated as long as there are active transfers. 52 53 # DEFAULT 54 55 CURL_MAX_WRITE_SIZE (16kB) 56 57 # %PROTOCOLS% 58 59 # EXAMPLE 60 61 ~~~c 62 int main(void) 63 { 64 CURL *curl = curl_easy_init(); 65 if(curl) { 66 CURLcode res; 67 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "sftp://example.com/foo.bin"); 68 69 /* ask libcurl to allocate a larger receive buffer */ 70 curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_BUFFERSIZE, 120000L); 71 72 res = curl_easy_perform(curl); 73 74 curl_easy_cleanup(curl); 75 } 76 } 77 ~~~ 78 79 # %AVAILABILITY% 80 81 # RETURN VALUE 82 83 curl_easy_setopt(3) returns a CURLcode indicating success or error. 84 85 CURLE_OK (0) means everything was OK, non-zero means an error occurred, see 86 libcurl-errors(3).