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doc: The default value of highWaterMark is 16KB. #31561

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The default value of highWaterMark is 16KB.
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doc: fix the spelling error in stream.md
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Expand Up @@ -1426,7 +1426,7 @@ If the loop terminates with a `break` or a `throw`, the stream will be
destroyed. In other terms, iterating over a stream will consume the stream
fully. The stream will be read in chunks of size equal to the `highWaterMark`
option. In the code example above, data will be in a single chunk if the file
has less then 64kb of data because no `highWaterMark` option is provided to
has less then 64KB of data because no `highWaterMark` option is provided to
[`fs.createReadStream()`][].

### Duplex and Transform Streams
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* `options` {Object}
* `highWaterMark` {number} Buffer level when
[`stream.write()`][stream-write] starts returning `false`. **Default:**
`16384` (16kb), or `16` for `objectMode` streams.
`16384` (16KB), or `16` for `objectMode` streams.
* `decodeStrings` {boolean} Whether to encode `string`s passed to
[`stream.write()`][stream-write] to `Buffer`s (with the encoding
specified in the [`stream.write()`][stream-write] call) before passing
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* `options` {Object}
* `highWaterMark` {number} The maximum [number of bytes][hwm-gotcha] to store
in the internal buffer before ceasing to read from the underlying resource.
**Default:** `16384` (16kb), or `16` for `objectMode` streams.
**Default:** `16384` (16KB), or `16` for `objectMode` streams.
* `encoding` {string} If specified, then buffers will be decoded to
strings using the specified encoding. **Default:** `null`.
* `objectMode` {boolean} Whether this stream should behave
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