I'm doing that now and it gives a massive boost to performance and file
sizes! Dave, any thoughts on the 403 issue?
Thanks.
On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Dave Cheney <dave at cheney.net> wrote:
> 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;
> >
> > }
> > }
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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