Performance limitation in read(1)

David Collier-Brown -- Customer Engineering David.Collier-Brown at sun.com
Tue Aug 26 15:33:44 GMT 2003


Richard Sharpe wrote:
> In anycase, it is much more efficient to avoid the copy altogether and 
> use sendfile and recvfile.

Possibly dumb question: I don't understand why sendfile isn't
being used: I see Pierre Belanger's SOLARIS_SENDFILE_API,
but don't see it as being used when I truss the server...
Does it default to unused?

--dave
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