PackageDescription: WebToolkit sendfile hack


Web Toolkit sendfile hack

Last published: November 7, 2006 by 'jamesr'

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A HACK. If you load this in Linux over the WebToolkit parcels, it will used sendfile() (direct copy between file descriptors in kernel memory) to send static files.

Preliminary testing has shown that this triples the throughput for static files, to a third of Apache's throughput.