Lots of buffering - is this normal?

[Igor Sysoev]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 01:23:34PM -0700, mike wrote:

> The defaults. I don't have them defined in my config.
> 
> Could I improve this?

The default values are:

fastcgi_buffer_size  4k;     # 8k on 64-bit
fastcgi_buffers      8 4k;   # 8 8K on 64-bit

So, depending on platform your /foo.php response is bigger than 36K or 72K.

You may increase number of buffers:
fastcgi_buffers  32 4k;

or

fastcgi_buffers  32 8k;


> On 4/21/08, Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru> wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 09:18:26AM -0700, mike wrote:
> >
> > > Should I be worried that it buffers even on smaller requests?
> > >
> > > 2008/04/21 09:16:33 [warn] 16705#0: *1111856 an upstream response is
> > > buffered to a temporary file /var/lib/nginx/fastcgi/4/00/0000000004
> > > while reading upstream, client: 1.2.70.157, server: domain.com,
> > > request: "GET /foo.php HTTP/1.0", upstream:
> > > "fastcgi://127.0.0.1:11011", host: "domain.com", referrer:
> > > "http://domain.com/foo.php"
> >
> > Yes. What are your fastcgi_buffer_size and fastcgi_buffers settings ?
> >
> >
> > --
> > Igor Sysoev
> > http://sysoev.ru/en/
> >
> >

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