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-.Dd May 1, 2007
+.Dd May 14, 2007
.Dt VARNISHD 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
This is not likely to have any effect unless the working set is too
large to fit in physical memory.
.Pp
-The default is 8192 bytes, which is probably too low.
+Note that several operating systems have known bugs which make it
+inadvisable to use this.
+.Pp
+The default is -1, which disables the use of sendfile altogether.
.It Va send_timeout
The time to wait before dropping the connection to a client which is
not accepting data sent to it.