Possible causes for request time taking twice as long as upstream response time

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 10:38:26AM +0100, Simone Fumagalli wrote:

> On 02/04/2011 07:23 AM, Zev Blut wrote:
> > While looking at these logs I can see that sometimes these numbers have a fairly large delta.
> > For example one request's request_time is 1.553 while the upstream_response_time is 0.864.
> 
> Hello, did you find any more info on this ? I was also doing 
> tuning on my NGINX setup and I also wondering about this delta.

$request_time is a total time of request processing, including 
reading request from a client and sending response to the client.

$upstream_response_time is a time of obtaining response from an 
upstream server.

The $request_time variable is expected to be always larger than 
$upstream_response_time one as in addition to $upstream_response_time 
it also includes at least a) reading request from a client and b) 
sending (buffered part of) the response to the client.  Both (a) 
and (b) may take a while.

Maxim Dounin