See upstream commit: commit 46c4c9d1beb7f5b4cec4dd90e7728720583ee348 Author: Alex Xu (Hello71) <alex_y_xu@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Aug 5 10:40:47 2021 -0400 pipe: increase minimum default pipe size to 2 pages Signed-off-by: Kienan Stewart <kstewart@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- man/man7/pipe.7 | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/man/man7/pipe.7 b/man/man7/pipe.7 index d1fad9974..c7f3fbb9e 100644 --- a/man/man7/pipe.7 +++ b/man/man7/pipe.7 @@ -223,6 +223,9 @@ So long as the total number of pages allocated to pipe buffers for this user is at this limit, individual pipes created by a user will be limited to one page, and attempts to increase a pipe's capacity will be denied. +As of Linux 5.14 the default capacity of individual pipes created +by a user is two pages instead. Users may reduce the pipe capacity +below this default value. .IP When the value of this limit is zero, no soft limit is applied. The default value for this file is 16384, -- 2.45.2