disable sendfile in Varnish, please

Stein Ove Rosseland steinove at vg.no
Tue Dec 11 10:02:46 CET 2007


Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <EEF3518D-EA59-4B21-9CB0-D3F71075E8DA at anduin.net>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ei
> rik_=D8verby?= writes:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> is this still a problem?
> 
> Yes, sendfile is not currently usable because it does not tell
> us when it is _really_ done with the data we send, so it can
> run afoul of our reuse of the memory for short lived objects.
> 

As i understand it, the problem is in the bsd implementation of
sendfile, and does not occur in the linux implementation.

Or do You have another opinion on the matter?

Stein Ove

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