sendfile is much more efficient than that. At the most basic level,
sendfile allows a file to be streamed directly from the block device (or
OS cache) to the network, all in kernel-space (see sendfile(2)).
What you describe below is less effective, since you need to ask the
kernel to read the
Yeah, sendfile() is how I've done this in the past, although I was using
mod_perl 1.x for it.
On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 5:55 AM, André Warnier a...@ice-sa.com wrote:
Randolf Richardson wrote:
I know that it's possible(and arguably best practice) to use Apache to
download large files
sendfile sounds like its exactly what I'm looking for. I see it in the API
documentation for Apache2::RequestIO but how do I get a reference to it
from the reference to Apache2::RequestRec which is passed to my handler?
On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 9:54 AM, Perrin Harkins phark...@gmail.com wrote:
You can effectively stream a file byte by byte - you just need to print
a chunk at a time and mod_perl and apache will handle it
appropriately... I do this all the time to handle large data downloads
(the systems I manage are backed by peta bytes of data)...
The art is often not in the output
Randolf Richardson wrote:
I know that it's possible(and arguably best practice) to use Apache to
download large files efficiently and quickly, without passing them through
mod_perl. However, the data I need to download from my application is both
dynamically generated and sensitive so I
Randolf Richardson wrote:
I know that it's possible(and arguably best practice) to use Apache to
download large files efficiently and quickly, without passing them through
mod_perl. However, the data I need to download from my application is both
dynamically generated and sensitive so I cannot
