[?? Probable Spam] Re: about "connection_pool_size" and "request_pool_size"

[Igor Sysoev]

On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 11:14:26AM +0800, arlene chen wrote:

> Igor Sysoev ??????:
> >On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 11:36:47PM +0800, arlene chen wrote:
> >
> >  
> >>   who know the exact mean of  "connection_pool_size" and 
> >>"request_pool_size",I  try to find it in  nginx document  but  it it not 
> >>listed in module reference ,and I can not search it in nginx wiki too. 
> >>Finally I search it from  nginx's  source code, only  two xx.c   used 
> >>these parameter , but I can  not find out the exact mean of these two 
> >>parameters, so I need to know  how these two parameters are defined and 
> >>the most thing is they are used for what?
> >>    
> >
> >The pools are used to allocate memory per connection and request.
> >The pools are used for small allocations. If a block is bigger than
> >pool size or bigger than page size, then it is allocted outside the pool.
> >If there is not enough memory for small allocation inside pool, then
> >a new block of the same pool size is allocated.
> >
> >
> >  
> the default setting of connection_pool_size is 256 byte ,and the default 
> setting of request_pool_size is 4k, can I think that the 
> connection_pool_size is just used to maintain the socket connection and 
> and the request_pool_size is just used to cache the http request header, 
> the output_buffer is used to http response, so the connection_pool_size 
> and request_pool_size have not effect on the performance of nginx or the 
> effect is very small?

Yes, the effect is very small.

The output_buffers are used to read response from file if it is needed to
be processed by SSI, charset converting, or gzipping. Otherwise, if
sendfile is used, the output_buffers are not used.


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