Issue #18643: Fix some test_socket failures due to large default socket buffer

sizes.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/test/support/__init__.py b/Lib/test/support/__init__.py
index 02ea298..cfbe4bd 100644
--- a/Lib/test/support/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/test/support/__init__.py
@@ -602,8 +602,14 @@ IPV6_ENABLED = _is_ipv6_enabled()
 # Windows limit seems to be around 512 B, and many Unix kernels have a
 # 64 KiB pipe buffer size or 16 * PAGE_SIZE: take a few megs to be sure.
 # (see issue #17835 for a discussion of this number).
-PIPE_MAX_SIZE = 4 *1024 * 1024 + 1
-
+PIPE_MAX_SIZE = 4 * 1024 * 1024 + 1
+
+# A constant likely larger than the underlying OS socket buffer size, to make
+# writes blocking.
+# The socket buffer sizes can usually be tuned system-wide (e.g. through sysctl
+# on Linux), or on a per-socket basis (SO_SNDBUF/SO_RCVBUF). See issue #18643
+# for a discussion of this number).
+SOCK_MAX_SIZE = 16 * 1024 * 1024 + 1
 
 # decorator for skipping tests on non-IEEE 754 platforms
 requires_IEEE_754 = unittest.skipUnless(