JDK-4953311 : Buffer size in BufferedInputStream and BufferedOutputStream is too small
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Component: core-libs
  • Sub-Component: java.io
  • Affected Version: 5.0
  • Priority: P2
  • Status: Resolved
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • OS: windows_nt
  • CPU: x86
  • Submitted: 2003-11-12
  • Updated: 2017-05-16
  • Resolved: 2003-12-19
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5.0 b32Fixed
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Description
In java.io package, BufferedInputStream uses a default buffer size of 2048 bytes, and BufferedOutputStream uses a default buffer size of 512 bytes. These buffer sizes are too small and they cause significant performance penalty to the system because of the extra reads and writes. The small buffer size also causes significant performance bottleneck in socket read/write on high speed network. This bug is on all platforms.

Most OSes that we support uses a buffer size of 8192 (8K) bytes for their IO buffering, and this is also the buffer size used by Microsoft VM on Win32. We should change the default buffer size in these two classes to 8K.
Comments
CONVERTED DATA BugTraq+ Release Management Values COMMIT TO FIX: tiger-beta FIXED IN: tiger-beta INTEGRATED IN: tiger-b32 tiger-beta
14-06-2004
EVALUATION Sounds reasonable. There is a spec change involved which has been approved by the CCC. ###@###.### 2003-11-13
13-11-2003