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docs: add one sentence reason for having accelerated sendfile
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If your front-end server supports accelerated file sending, `Rack::Sendfile`
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will offload the actual file sending work to the front-end server.
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This enables Rails to finish request handling and free resources earlier.
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You can configure the name of the header that your front-end server uses for
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this purpose using [`config.action_dispatch.x_sendfile_header`][] in the appropriate

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