config file for only static files.

[Dave Cheney]

Give the gzip_static module a try to avoid gzip'ing content on the fly

Use 7za a -tzip -mx9 filename.gz filename

To achieve the maximum compression up front

Cheers

Dave

On 05/04/2008, at 2:55 PM, 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;
>
>    }
> }
>
>
>