In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ei rik_=D8verby?= writes:
>>> 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. > >Thanks. What's the likelihood that the error I saw today is in fact >caused by this weakness in the sendfile implementation, and that >Varnish has triggered it? In other words; now that I disabled it as >suggested, how surprised should I be to see a similiar error again? Well, the fact that you have sendfile enabled at all means that you run a pretty old[1] version of varnish, so there are a number of other bugs you may hit, but at least the one where sendfile sends wrong data to the user should be gone. Poul-Henning [1] For such a young project obviously :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ varnish-misc mailing list varnish-misc@projects.linpro.no http://projects.linpro.no/mailman/listinfo/varnish-misc
