[Samba] Re: Red Hat and "use sendfile"

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Wed Feb 1 19:45:11 GMT 2006


Steve Snyder wrote:
> Recently I've seen several suggestions on this list for the enabling of "use 
> sendfile" as a means to improve throughput.  I thought this was peculiar 
> since the doc says it is enabled by default.  I guess it isn't.  
> 
> On both RHEL4 (Samba v3.0.10) and Fedora Core 4 (Samba v3.0.14) the entry 
> for "use sendfile" in the smb.conf says:  
> 	Default: use sendfile = yes

documentation error (?), not sure if it's samba or redhat/fedora specific.

I can say that from my install of samba-3.0.21b, 'man smb.conf' says:
Default: use sendfile = false

-- Rex



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