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Author: des
Date: 2007-05-14 11:02:23 +0200 (Mon, 14 May 2007)
New Revision: 1418

Modified:
trunk/varnish-cache/bin/varnishd/varnishd.1
Log:
Document the inadvisability of enabling sendfile.


Modified: trunk/varnish-cache/bin/varnishd/varnishd.1
===================================================================
--- trunk/varnish-cache/bin/varnishd/varnishd.1 2007-05-11 13:15:16 UTC (rev 1417)
+++ trunk/varnish-cache/bin/varnishd/varnishd.1 2007-05-14 09:02:23 UTC (rev 1418)
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
.\"
.\" $Id$
.\"
-.Dd May 1, 2007
+.Dd May 14, 2007
.Dt VARNISHD 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -372,7 +372,10 @@
This is not likely to have any effect unless the working set is too
large to fit in physical memory.
.Pp
-The default is 8192 bytes, which is probably too low.
+Note that several operating systems have known bugs which make it
+inadvisable to use this.
+.Pp
+The default is -1, which disables the use of sendfile altogether.
.It Va send_timeout
The time to wait before dropping the connection to a client which is
not accepting data sent to it.