Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 18:56:00 +0000 From: Dominic Marks <dominic_marks@btinternet.com> To: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@karlsbakk.net> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: in-kernel web server??? Message-ID: <E16FgRu-0004rm-00@gadolinium.btinternet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0112161933200.5821-100000@mustard.heime.net> References: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0112161933200.5821-100000@mustard.heime.net>
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On Sunday 16 December 2001 6:36 pm, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > > Have you experimented with FTP and NFS copy speeds for > > comparison? > > I can't use them. Currently, I heed to run http. > > > AFAIK FreeBSD does not support zero copy. There are some patches > > floating around but I have no knowledge about them. > > Are you sure? > > According to Paal Halvorsen, PhD on 'improving i/o performance on > multimedia systems' (see > http://ConfMan.unik.no/~paalh/index2.html), he says sendfile() is > supported under FreeBSD. Sendfile is supported. As I understand it being able to do zero copy memory access and using sendfile are not the same thing. Sendfile may be implemented with zero copy, or it may not. I may be wrong with this issue. > roy -- Dominic To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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