Re: apache manual language

On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 05:32, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 11:12, Joe Orton wrote:
> > 
> > MultiViews is only enabled by default for the the manual directory;  
> > disabling FollowSymLinks is a performance hit; maybe Indexes should be
> > indeed be off by default, could you file a bugzilla bug on that?
> 
> Disabling FollowSymLinks is a performance improvement, not hit.

No it isn't.  When you configure the server to not follow symlinks, it
has to stat() all of the directories in the path to the file to make
sure that none of them are symlinks.  This takes more time per page than
when the server is allowed to follow symlinks, and such checks are
unnecessary.