Agreed. The most optimal way of doing this would be to use your operating system's sendfile() routine, where available, in the evhttp_write_cb routine.
-Patrick 2009/11/16 Tero Marttila <te...@fixme.fi> > Krzysztof Adamski wrote: > >> Hi, >> i would like to build simple HTTPD server using libevent2. It is going >> to send some quite big files but i would like it to handle couple >> concurrent connections. The files can be sent in chunks so I'm using >> evhttp_send_reply_chunk for this. The problem is, how can I send big >> files while still being able to handle new connections? >> > > One option is to add the functionality to evhttp. > > I don't have any concrete patches to post, but when I tried this a (long) > while ago, it was fairly straightforward, just building on top of the > existing bufferevent watermark functionality. > > More specifically, it amounted to having evhttp_write_buffer apply a > suitable bufferevent_setwatermark (EV_WRITE lowmark) when called from within > evhttp_send_reply_chunk, setting up evcon->cb to invoke the user's "send > more data" callback from evhttp_write_cb. This worked, to the extent that I > tested it. > > -- Tero Marttila > > *********************************************************************** > To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@freehaven.net with > unsubscribe libevent-users in the body. >
