n...@holland-consulting.net: >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. > My server powers OpenBSD 5.9, and I forgot to mention that. Yes, by my tests, I noticed that 300MB for each file is good for me, then I split my 1GB file into 300MB pieces :D
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