Pipes data from its standard input to a ring buffer. This provides one mechanism to send data from a non ring buffer aware data source to a ring.
--mindata=nSpecifies the minimum size of the block of data stdintoring will try to get from the stdin prior to transferring it to the ring. The value n is the number of bytes of data or can be a number followed by k, m or g which multiply the numeric value by 1024, 1024*1024 and 1024*1024*1024 respectively.
This value defaults to 1m if not
explicitly overridden.
See also, however, the --timeout option
below.
--timeout=seconds
Specifies the maximum amount of time in seconds the program will
wait for for the number of bytes specified as
--mindata. If by that timeout, that number
of bytes is not available, any bytes that are available on stdin
are read and forwarded to the ring. This ensures that latencies
remain tolerable even at low data rates with large values
of --mindata