On Jul 18, 2010, at 12:28 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: > On 7/18/2010 12:58 PM, Paul Querna wrote: >> >> We have now disabled Sendfile on apache.org, and the load average >> dropped from ~80 to 0.35. > > Wow. > > Is it unreasonable for us to change the API to disable sendfile as the default > from 2.3-alphas forward?
+1 S. > The feature is loaded with simply too many gotchas - NFS mounts, broken > kernels, > and although we don't need to remove it, and can encourage people to use it > with > caution, it doesn't seem rational to leave such an unintuitive choice up to > the > novice/beginning user. > > Comments? > > -- Sander Temme scte...@apache.org PGP FP: FC5A 6FC6 2E25 2DFD 8007 EE23 9BB8 63B0 F51B B88A
