23 Jan
2010
23 Jan
'10
7:02 p.m.
On Jan 23, 2010, at 10:52 AM, Michael Snoyman wrote:
Jeremy,
What I meant is, if you use a sendfile system call to send raw files from the disk, how does this interact with gzip compression, which clearly cannot be used when using a sendfile call? I ask because you implied there were significant performance gains from using sendfile.
At present there is no mechanism to use sendfile+gzip. The only solution would be to gzip the file in a cache of some sort, and the use sendfile on that. That is just a limitation of the way sendfile works. We do not have anything like that built-in yet.. but you could add in a 3rd party library... - jeremy