config file for only static files.

[Amer Shah]

Thanks for the feedback guys.

Apart from turning gzip_static, I did what you guys suggested and I'm up to
consistently 3900 Requests/Second in benchmarking.
Possibly with gzip_static, I can break the 4000 mark. Thanks guys !

On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 4:51 AM, Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru> wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 03:55:47AM +0000, Amer wrote:
>
> > 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;
> >
> >     }
> > }
>
> As it was suggested, try to use gzip_static.
>
> Also, remove unused MIME types from gzip_types.
> There is no application/xml, application/xml+rss, and ext/javascript
> in default miem.types. The gzip modules tests Content-Type sequentially,
> so the shorter list is the better.
>
> You may need to increase worker_connections, 1024 mean that you are
> able to handle 4*1024 connections only. You also need to increase
> number of files, sockets, etc in kernel.
>
> If you do not need access_log, you may set it off.
> Or, you may use buffered log:
>
> http {
>
>    access_log   /path/to/log  buffer=32k;
>
> Also you may marginally decrease number of syscalls using:
>
> timer_resolution  100ms;
>
> And finally use open file descriptor cache to decrease number of
> open()/stat()/close() syscalls:
>
> http {
>
>    open_file_cache          max=10000  inactive=20s;
>    open_file_cache_valid    30s;
>    open_file_cache_min_uses 2;
>    open_file_cache_errors   on;
>
>
> However, I do not think that all these settings will result in more
> requests/seconds in your environment.
>
>
> --
> Igor Sysoev
> http://sysoev.ru/en/
>
>
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