03-29-2010
If you make it sleep shorter time or make your machine busier, you will observe your original problem with named pipe (or any other methods). A Unix pipe has at least 4k buffer size and I don't think there is a way to make it smaller. Without a way to reduce the pipe size and not able to modify the streaming code, I see no way to solve your problem.
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