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Does a 26MB message actually cause noticeable strain on the server much beyond loading the page? I would think serving a contiguous 26MB chunk would be relativ
by jmalicki 5mo ago
Does a 26MB message actually cause noticeable strain on the server much beyond loading the page? I would think serving a contiguous 26MB chunk would be relatively similar to say 20 normal sized messages.
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- mort96 5mo agoWay off. I went to an arbitrary message on lore.kernel.org. Firefox's network inspector says 7.37kB was transferred, including stylesheets. 26MB is roughly 3500x 7.37kB.
- jmalicki 5mo agoData transferred is not what generates load. sendfile() is about the lowest-overhead thing a web server does.