ZFS-lighttpd2-sendfile, too high IO
Andriy Gapon
avg at FreeBSD.org
Mon Sep 12 19:45:46 UTC 2011
on 12/09/2011 21:12 K. Macy said the following:
> 2011/9/12 Steven Hartland <killing at multiplay.co.uk>:
>> sendfile doesn't work as you might expect on zfs, its not zero copy due to
>> the use of none buffer pool memory.
>>
>> You do get a benefit but it requires double the amount of memory to get it
>> so we've disabled sendfile
>> under nginx for zfs based hosts for this very reason.
>
>
> In my performance testing, sending from mmaped I/O on ZFS was
> dramatically faster (> 2x) than sendfile.
When did you last test that (FreeBSD svn revision)?
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Andriy Gapon
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