On Sun, 2025-11-09 at 15:33 -0500, Robert Heller wrote: > Well, the most limited RAM SBC *I* know of is the Beagleboards: the > BeagleboardBlack and Pocket Beagle as 1/2Gig. Early model RPis have > 1Gig of > RAM. Note: it is possible to include swap space on these machines on > their > uSD cards (but probably not recomended).
"man 7 pipe" says that since Linux 2.6.35, the default pile size is 16 pages, i.e., 65,536 bytes. It can be changed by using the fcntl(2) F_GETPIPE_SZ and F_SETPIPE_SZ operations, but it's unlikely the OP's sending program changed it to more than 16 pages.

