From 0913a51fe192a7443c0fac0f976e4d8d4fbadfd3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: des Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 09:02:23 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Document the inadvisability of enabling sendfile. git-svn-id: svn+ssh://projects.linpro.no/svn/varnish/trunk@1418 d4fa192b-c00b-0410-8231-f00ffab90ce4 --- varnish-cache/bin/varnishd/varnishd.1 | 7 +++++-- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/varnish-cache/bin/varnishd/varnishd.1 b/varnish-cache/bin/varnishd/varnishd.1 index ee6dd9db..1d16a682 100644 --- a/varnish-cache/bin/varnishd/varnishd.1 +++ b/varnish-cache/bin/varnishd/varnishd.1 @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ .\" .\" $Id$ .\" -.Dd May 1, 2007 +.Dd May 14, 2007 .Dt VARNISHD 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -372,7 +372,10 @@ instead of 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. -- 2.39.5