sendfilev vs writev

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

The subject of sendfile is compounded by the lack of usable
implementations, but the experience data I have gathered so far is
that you need to have significant paging activity to backing store,
and you still should not enable it for objects smaller than 8-16
VM pages.

sendfile really shines with huge files on vastly overcommitted VM,
such as ftp.cdrom.com where it was developed.

For lots of small files, not so much.

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