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Indeed, if I'm not mistaken Netflix at least used to use (and commit to kernel) FreeBSD on content servers because of its superior sendfile performance

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Not only that, but they even contributed patches to allow the FreeBSD kernel to handle the TLS part of SSL_sendfile as well[1].

[1]: https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?ktls(4)

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