On Jul 18, 2010, at 3:28 PM, William A. Rowe Jr. 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. >
++1. Seems to me, this is, and should be, a blocker for 2.3.7 beta.
