config file for only static files.

[Denis S. Filimonov]

You might want to consider using pre-compressed files: 
http://wiki.codemongers.com/NginxHttpGzipStaticModule
That can save a lot of cpu cycles.

On Friday 04 April 2008 23:55:47 Amer wrote:
> Hello guys.
>
> I wanted to run a particular configuration by you guys to get your
> thoughts. I'm moving from lighttpd to nginx.
>
> First a little bit of background. The site is a single server running
> FreeBsd. It's a Dual Processor Quad Core Xeon 5310 1.60GHz (Clovertown)
> with a 2 x 8MB cache and 4 GB RAM. The site serves only static content.
> There is absolutely zero dynamic content. No databases involved. Each
> static file is about 50 kb.
>
> I get about 3000-3500 requests/second with lightpd and with my initial
> setup of nginx I get about the same. While I'm happy with this I used a
> very simple config file and just wanted to see if the experienced folks
> over here could point out some things that might be able to boost that up
> even further. It's very simple and short (just about 20 lines) and I hope
> some of you could give me some advise to get more performance (if
> possible).
>
> ----------------------------------------------
>
> worker_processes  4;
>
> events {
>     worker_connections  1024;
> }
>
> http {
>     include       mime.types;
>     default_type  application/octet-stream;
>
>     sendfile        on;
>     tcp_nopush     on;
>
>     keepalive_timeout  65;
>
>     gzip  on;
>     gzip_types      text/plain text/html text/css application/x-javascript
>                     text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss
> ext/javascript;
>
>     server {
>         listen       80;
>         server_name  localhost;
>
>         location / {
>             root   /usr/local/www/data;
>             index  indexd12.html;
>         }
>
>         error_page  404              /404.html;
>
>     }
> }



-- 
Denis.