config file for only static files.

[rkmr.em at gmail.com]

Aamer,
Can you post final config that gave you 3900 reqs/second?
thanks

On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Amer Shah <amerrahman at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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/
> >
> >
>
>