On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 11:22:12AM +0200, Johan Bergström wrote:

>
> On 7 okt 2009, at 11.01, Igor Sysoev wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Oct 07, 2009 at 07:45:45AM +0200, Hoang Hoang wrote:
> >
> >> Igor Sysoev wrote:
> >>> Changes with nginx 0.8.18
> >>> 06 Oct
> >>> 2009
> >>>
> >>> *) Feature: the "read_ahead" directive.
> >>>
> >>> *) Feature: now several "perl_modules" directive may be used.
> >>>
> >>> *) Feature: the "limit_req_log_level" and "limit_conn_log_level"
> >>> directives.
> >>>
> >>> *) Bugfix: now "limit_req" directive conforms to the leaky bucket
> >>> algorithm.
> >>> Thanks to Maxim Dounin.
> >>>
> >>> *) Bugfix: nginx did not work on Linux/sparc.
> >>> Thanks to Marcus Ramberg.
> >>>
> >>> *) Bugfix: nginx sent '\0' in a "Location" response header line
> >>> on
> >>> MKCOL request.
> >>> Thanks to Xie Zhenye.
> >>>
> >>> *) Bugfix: zero status code was logged instead of 499 status
> >>> code;
> >>> the
> >>> bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
> >>>
> >>> *) Bugfix: socket leak; the bug had appeared in 0.8.11.
> >>
> >> Thank a lot Igor
> >>
> >> Could you explain new added features in this version in more details?
> >>
> >> + "read_ahead" directive.
> >
> > On FreeBSD 7.2 with the patch
> > http://sysoev.ru/html/freebsd/patch.readahead.txt
>
> This is 404, I'm guessing you mean http://sysoev.ru/freebsd/patch.readahead.txt
> ?

Yes, you are right.

A note:
fcntl(O_READAHEAD, size) had been added in FreeBSD 9-CURRENT on Sep 28.
After one month it will be merged in 8-STABLE. For 7-STABLE you may use
the patch. Also you need to increase "sysctl vfs.read_max=32" (512k).


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Igor Sysoev
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