sendfile() in varnish

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <2BEFE70A-FCB1-4E37-96BC-B6D8E5252C0A at irx.jp>, Yutaro Shimamura writ
es:

>value of varnishstat "Objects sent with sendfile" is almost 0.
>            0         0.00         0.00 Objects sent with sendfile
>
>so, write() called.
>     37327571       335.20       157.86 Objects sent with write
>
>when do you use sendfile()?

By default: never, there are problems with all sendfile() implementations
that prevent them from being usable in Varnish.  Only FreeBSD-Current
and later FreeBSD-8 will support sendfile().

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