Unsure about proxy_temp_file_write_size to prevent upstream response buffering

Maxim Dounin mdounin at mdounin.ru
Tue Jan 29 16:44:11 MSK 2008


Hello!

On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:11:05PM +1100, Dave Cheney wrote:

> Hi Maxim,
>
> 	Thanks for your response, I've set my proxy directives to
>
>  proxy_buffering 	on;
>  proxy_buffer_size       4k;
> -proxy_buffers 		4	32k;
> +proxy_buffers 		8	32k;
>
> 	Which I'm guessing has 256k of buffering capacity, is that correct?

With this settings nginx should be able to buffer up to 260k (4k + 
8*32k) of upstream response in memory. This number includes length 
of headers returned by upstream.

Maxim Dounin





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