RE: Scheduler ( was: Just a second ) ...

From: Chris Ricker (kaboom@gatech.edu)
Date: Thu Dec 20 2001 - 18:55:55 EST

On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Troels Walsted Hansen wrote:

> >From: David S. Miller
> > From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
> > Well, that was true when the thing was written, but whether anybody
> _uses_
> > it any more, I don't know. Tux gets the same effect on its own, and
> I
> > don't know if Apache defaults to using sendfile or not.
> >
> >Samba uses it by default, that I know for sure :-)
>
> I wish... Neither Samba 2.2.2 nor the bleeding edge 3.0alpha11 includes
> the word "sendfile" in the source at least. :( Wonder why the sendfile
> patches where never merged...

The only real-world source I've noticed actually using sendfile() are some
of the better ftp daemons (such as vsftpd).

later,
chris 

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Chris Ricker                                               kaboom@gatech.edu

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