Occasional truncated responses with nginx+passenger

[Jonathan del Strother]

On 26 July 2010 18:40, Jonathan del Strother <maillist at steelskies.com> wrote:
> Heya,
> I'm having problems with our nginx setup (nginx 0.7.67 -> passenger
> 2.2.15 -> rails 2.3.6, all running on Solaris 5.11).  Most requests
> are fine, but occasionally - maybe every 1 in 50 - I get a truncated
> response.
>
> I set up a test script that repeatedly requests a page that's 22kb
> long.  Every so often I get a truncated response body, truncated to a
> multiple of 5KB - usually 15kb.  The header content length still
> indicates 22kb, but only 15kb are transferred according to the
> access.log.
>
> I wrote some Rack middleware to at least check that the responses
> coming out of Rails were sane, which leaves nginx and/or passenger.
> Any suggestions on tracing it further?
>

I got a response from one of the Phusion guys - apparently it's a
kernel bug in Solaris when using Ruby 1.8.  So I guess nginx is off
the hook for this one :)