High CPU when upstream server down

[Ryan Malayter]

On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 2:10 PM, adamn <nginx-forum at nginx.us> wrote:
> Nginx goes to nearly 100% CPU when I take down my upstream servers
> (gunicorn).  Has anybody heard of this as an issue?
>

Configuration file? I would suspect something causing an endless loop
of redirects or something like that. I did similar to myself in a QA
environment a while back with an ill-concieved "catch-all" dynamic
error_page.
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RPM