Ruediger Pluem wrote:
On 11/25/2008 02:26 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Author: minfrin
Date: Mon Nov 24 17:26:46 2008
New Revision: 720374
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=720374&view=rev
Log:
Clarify the behaviour of the apr_bucket_read() and apr_brigade_write()
functions to lift some of the mystery surrounding how they work.
Modified:
apr/apr-util/trunk/include/apr_buckets.h
Modified: apr/apr-util/trunk/include/apr_buckets.h
URL:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/apr/apr-util/trunk/include/apr_buckets.h?rev=720374&r1=720373&r2=720374&view=diff
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--- apr/apr-util/trunk/include/apr_buckets.h (original)
+++ apr/apr-util/trunk/include/apr_buckets.h Mon Nov 24 17:26:46 2008
@@ -800,6 +800,20 @@
+ *
+ * Some buckets, such as the file bucket, might have a fixed size,
+ * but be significantly larger than is practical to store in RAM in
+ * one go. As with the socket bucket, if an attempt is made to read
+ * from a file bucket, the file bucket is magically morphed into a
+ * heap bucket containing a convenient amount of data read from the
IMHO this is not correct. It depends on whether MMAP is available and allowed.
If MMAP is available and allowed the file bucket is morphed into an
MMAP bucket of reasonable size.
Yup, the auto-MMAP feature is quite cool :-)
(buckets buckets everywhere!)
(until we switch to serf at least!)
-Paul
