annotate misc/README @ 4164:c48662671609 stable-1.0

Merging r4130, r4131, r4135: Linux AIO related fixes: *) Fixing Linux AIO syscalls return value handling: syscall(2) uses usual libc convention, it returns -1 on error and sets errno. Obsolete _syscall(2) returns negative value of error. *) Fixing Linux AIO initiatialization: AIO operations are disabled if kernel does not support them. Previously worker just exited. *) The "worker_aio_requests" directive. The default value is 32 AIO simultaneous requests per worker. Previously they were hardcoded to 1024, and it was too large, since Linux allocated them early on io_setup(), but not on request itself. So with default value of /proc/sys/fs/aio-max-nr equal to 65536 only 64 worker processes could be run simultaneously. 32 AIO requests are enough for modern disks even if server runs only 1 worker.
author Igor Sysoev <igor@sysoev.ru>
date Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:12:53 +0000
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2 GNUmakefile, in svn it is available since 0.4.0 only.
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5 make -f misc/GNUmakefile release
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7 the required tools:
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8 *) xsltproc to build CHANGES,
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9 *) java and XSLScript ( http://pault.com/pault/XSLScript/ ) to build XSLTs
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10 from XSLScript sources.
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13 make -f misc/GNUmakefile icons
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16 *) netpbm to create Win32 icons from xpm sources.