nginx won't honor limit_rate

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 07:06:56PM -0400, mojiz wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I have an nginx server 
>  nginx version: nginx/1.1.2
> I'm using limit_rate to limt download speed of my users however after an
> upgrade(I can't remember the version)
> it doesn't work anymore.
> Do you know why or how can I debug this?
> The debug log doesn't show anything.
> BTW I'm using nginx_proxy to send a file from my backends to my users.
> I have used X-Accel-Limit-Rate, limit_rate and $limit_rate but neither
> worked

Most likely you are using "proxy_buffering off;", it disables any 
buffering including limit_rate one.

If in doubt, please follow http://wiki.nginx.org/Debugging.

Maxim Dounin