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<p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;clear:both;word-wrap:break-word">Hi,</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;clear:both;word-wrap:break-word">
<span style="background-color:transparent">I am running a nginx on EC2 (m1.small) for SSL termination.</span></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;clear:both;word-wrap:break-word">
I am using 2 workers on Ubuntu, with latest nginx (stable), the network throughput is around <strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">2Mbps</strong> and system load average is around <strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">2 to 3.</strong></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;clear:both;word-wrap:break-word">I am wondering if this system is in good health for now,</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;clear:both;word-wrap:break-word">
e.g.</p><ol style="margin:0px 0px 1em 30px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;list-style-position:initial"><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;word-wrap:break-word">
what is the queue length (I know nginx can handle a lot of concurrent request, but I mean before the request is being served, how many of them need to wait before being served)</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;word-wrap:break-word">
what is the average queue time for a given request to be served.</li></ol><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;clear:both;word-wrap:break-word">I want to know because if my nginx is <strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent">cpu bounded</strong> (e.g. due to SSL), I will need to upgrade to a faster instance.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;clear:both;word-wrap:break-word">My current nginx status</p><pre style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;padding:5px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:rgb(238,238,238);font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,'Lucida Console','Liberation Mono','DejaVu Sans Mono','Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',monospace,serif;overflow:auto;width:auto;max-height:600px">
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server accepts handled requests
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Reading: 525 Writing: 81 Waiting: 3470 
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