On Monday, July 19, 2010, William A. Rowe Jr. <wr...@rowe-clan.net> wrote: > On 7/18/2010 12:58 PM, Paul Querna wrote: >> >> We have now disabled Sendfile on apache.org, and the load average >> dropped from ~80 to 0.35. > > Wow. > > Is it unreasonable for us to change the API to disable sendfile as the default > from 2.3-alphas forward? > > The feature is loaded with simply too many gotchas - NFS mounts, broken > kernels, > and although we don't need to remove it, and can encourage people to use it > with > caution, it doesn't seem rational to leave such an unintuitive choice up to > the > novice/beginning user. > > Comments?
Can someone comment on whether the minimal list of potential sendfile problems listed against the EnableSendfile directive documentation is up to date with all known potential problems, or have other issues been found since the documentation was written? Graham
