Recommended buffer sizes for a UDP socket

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I’m using UDP sockets for sending and receiving 1mpbs.
What value should I use for recbuf, sndbuf and buffer?
Does the new socket module works the same?
Should I change Linux settings?

inet manual says:

For TCP it is recommended to have val(buffer) >= val(recbuf) to avoid performance issues because of unnecessary copying. For UDP the same recommendation applies, but the max should not be larger than the MTU of the network path.

If recbuf == MTU, would gen_udp drop packets when there is a burst of several UDP packets?

Thanks

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