Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 Jun 1999 10:20:26 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: sendfile (& mailinglist archives) |
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Hi!
> We've been toying with a large (linux) ftp/http/smb fileserving box, at the > office, mostly to use as a mirror-box and to fill our spare bandwidth, and > the colleague working with it wanted to (try to) use sendfile() for it. Now, > i've seen some discussions on sendfile, but haven't really followed them, > and threw away my linux-kernel 'archive' a week ago, so we tried to find > some relative info on the 'net... and couldn't find too many. Well, hardly > any, even in the two linux-kernel mailinglist archives i could find. Was i > looking in the wrong places ? (linux.org and... one other. deja ? i can > re-find if anyone cares.) > > In any case, the situation is this: we want to serve files, we want to flood > all outgoing links, but we dont want to flood the machines' network buffers, > and we dont want to make any unnecessary syscalls. Two sendfile()s in (too) > quick succession however, makes the second one return EAGAIN, several times > if kept in a loop, depending on the size of the first sendfile().
Well, I guess you have socket in nonblocking mode. Why? If not, then there's something very wrong with sendfile, but last time I checked it worked for me.
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