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Four copies of a 10MB file moving from disk through the page cache and an application buffer to the network card, beside sendfile and mmap keeping the bytes in the kernel, and Kafka serving log segments the same way

PerformanceDay 75Oct 16, 2026

The File Was Already In Memory

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