Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
Only if you use a broken web server. With a proper O(1) event
notification mechanism and async web servers, keep-alive is a huge win,
if you don't have a single server load high enough to run out of file
descriptors.
Heh... well:
- We only recently got proper O(1) even
:
:sendfile is fs specific aswell. it doesnt work on smbfs etc which
:seems quite weird.
:-Jonas
There are some fairly severe filesystem dependancies in the kernel
sendfile implementation. It uses the UIO_NOCOPY mechanism that
UFS normally only uses when populating a buffer cache buff
