On 06/22/16 07:50, temp+...@frad.ir wrote: >> Hi folks >> For those of you running http in support of your business, are any of you >> providing >>videos for your customers ? >> If so what packages and set-up are you using? >> Any advice guidance appreciated. > > Hi, > > I used httpd for serving file in personal usages. I found that httpd is poor > for large > files and cause consuming resources for that purpose.
This was a somewhat subtle, but interesting problem...and it is now fixed (in -current, and will be in 6.0). The problem was, as I recall, not an issue of "large" files itself, but raised its head mostly on large files. The problem was when someone would start a file download and stop it prematurely for any reason, file descriptors (hope I'm using the right word properly here) were not being released. Well, it turns out it is rather difficult to abort the transfer of a 5k or 20k file...but a 300m file? Easy. And if running something where lots of people download lots of files, seemingly frequent...resulting in an unhappy system. I can now say with some confidence, that I this problem has been squished very effectively, and httpd (now) does a great job of running at least a few OpenBSD mirrors. Nick.
