Consider using posix_fadvise(POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL)

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Extremely fast and scalable Python FTP server library

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Consider using posix_fadvise(POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL) #501

Open giampaolo opened 5 years ago

giampaolo commented 5 years ago

...before sending (aka start reading) a file. This is supposed to tell the kernel that the file will be read sequentially, and hence perhaps improve performances.

giampaolo commented 5 years ago

proftpd uses POSIX_FADVISE_SEQUENTIAL on RETR and PR_FS_FADVISE_DONTNEED on STOR.