Viktors Rotanovs writes: > Nikita Danilov wrote: > > > > Also, does lack of sendfile in the current snapshot mean that Apache > > > will lose in performance when serving from Reiser4 partition? > > > > Hmm, what Apache uses sendfile for? > > > It uses it to send static content to client. Quote from Apache 2 docs: > > "In situations where Apache 2.0 can ignore the contents of the file to > be delivered -- for example, when serving static file content -- it > normally uses the kernel sendfile support the file if the OS supports > the |sendfile(2)| operation." > > "On most platforms, using sendfile improves performance by eliminating > separate read and send mechanics."
Current reiser4 will be slower than hypothetical reiser4-with-sendfile, but not necessary slower than, say, ext3. > > Best Wishes, > Viktors > Nikita.
