Apache2 can't serve static files over 100-200 kb

[Sondre Slathia]

I just setup a new ubuntu server 8.04 LTS as a LAMP server in our production environment. Earlier we have been using Debian for our production servers. In the testing phase i found out that with a standard installation of 8.04 server with all the updates as of this date this bug hasen't been fixed.

The problem is that when somone tries to download a file (example: PDF, FLV) its either VERY slow or the user isen't able to download the file at all. I googled the solution and found out that when i tell apache to not use sendfile (EnableSendfile Off) it works great. This is a problem since this is set to On as default.

I searched for other bugs related to this problem and found one: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apache2/+bug/95393/ but im reposting since that is specific to a live-cd and this is a plain normal install.

Here is the printout from uname -a
Linux prod 2.6.24-23-server #1 SMP Wed Apr 1 22:14:30 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Thanks for the bug report, I have looked through the default configuration and this option does not appear to be set on by default. If possible can you test the karmic version?

Thanks
chuck

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.