Memory leak in ZFS?

Jeremy Chadwick freebsd at jdc.parodius.com
Tue Feb 8 11:12:36 UTC 2011


On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 02:27:27AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> Comparatively, Apache out-of-the-box defaults to mmap() and sendfile()
> being disabled.  BSD ftpd, however, is known to use sendfile
> exclusively.

Tom Evans pointed out to me that this is not the case -- Apache defaults
to using "EnableMMAP On" and "EnableSendfile On", despite the
commented-out defaults in the stock httpd.conf file saying "Off".

So to clarify: I was wrong; disabling sendfile is something you have to
do administratively.

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