Weird timeouts, not sure if I've set the right threshholds

[Dave Cheney]

I'd like to add that 'having problems' doesn't just mean crashing. It  
can be as benign as stalling for 1/4 of a second because of a high IO  
backlog that needs to flushed to disk or a poorly configured NIC.  
During that 1/4 of a second (an eon on modern cpus) nothing will  
happen as the nginx worker process is blocked in kernel.

The suggestion from the wiki is to increase the number of workers if  
nginx is heavily IO bound. The traditional pattern is 2 x spindles or  
CPU's, whicheven is the larger. You setup is rather unconventional so  
you'll have to experiment.

Cheers

Dave

On 03/05/2008, at 11:14 AM, Rob Mueller wrote:

> Does nginx use stat() calls to verify a file/path exists? Does the  
> linux kernel block a stat() call on an NFS file if the NFS server is  
> having problems?