Nginx VS Nginx + Varnish

[Dave Cheney]

 From my experience, 60 small static files / second used 2% cpu on a  
OS X Xeon Server. Are you suspecting that your server is being limited  
in some way ?

Cheers

Dave

On 10/10/2008, at 7:50 AM, Gen Gennix wrote:

> Hey,
>
> Do you think it's a good idea to add Varnish to Nginx to serve static
> files?
>
>
> I'm running a dedicated server with 2GB RAM and a pentium dual core
> E2180 for static files.
>
> I'm only using Nginx 0.6.32 on Centos 5/linux 2.6.24: no database, no
> php, no gzip mod...
>
> Nginx sends 60 images/seconde (max 100 images/sec) among 3.200.000  
> jpeg
> images (one image = 5-10kB).
>
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>
>
> My Nginx file :
> --------------------------------------------------
> user              nginx nginx;
> worker_processes  4;
>
>
> events
> {
>    worker_connections  1024;
> }
>
>
> http
> {
>   include                mime.types;
>   default_type           application/octet-stream;
>
>   access_log             off;
>
>   sendfile               on;
>   tcp_nopush             on;
>   tcp_nodelay            on;
>
>   client_body_timeout    5;
>   client_header_timeout  5;
>   keepalive_timeout      5   5;
>   send_timeout           5;
>
>
>   gzip                   off;
>
>   server
>      {
>         listen       80;
>
>         root         /home/www;
>
>         expires      90d;
>
>         # CSS & Javascript files configuration
>         location ~* ^.+.(css|js)$
>            {
>               gzip_static        on;
>               gzip_http_version  1.1;
>               gzip_proxied       off;
>               gzip_min_length    0;
>               gzip_disable       "MSIE [1-6]\.";
>               gzip_vary          off;
>            }
>      }
> }
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