Making nginx "feel" faster?

[Igor Sysoev]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 07:52:29AM +0000, Phillip B Oldham wrote:

> Yes - lighttpd had lots of problems with 500 errors due to php processes 
> ending unexpectedly. Haven't tried apache, but I don't much fancy 
> playing with fastcgi with apache or re-compiling php.

But what about response feeling ?
Did lighttpd send static faster ?

> Igor Sysoev wrote:
> >On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 02:51:56PM +0000, Phillip B Oldham wrote:
> >
> >  
> >>Hi guys
> >>
> >>I'm working on a mediatemple server (US) from the UK and it looks like 
> >>there's a limit with the bandwidth from the server. Sites on that box 
> >>are slow, whether they're dynamic or not. nginx has 8 worker threads 
> >>(with 8 php-fastcgi threads waiting), keepalive is set to 3, static 
> >>files are being told to cache, and gzip is enabled.
> >>    
> >
> >You do not need worker per each php-fastcgi process.
> >Single worker is enough for this.
> >
> >  
> >>Are there any other tweaks I can do to nginx to make the responses feel 
> >>faster? Maybe reduce the chunk size or something?
> >>    
> >
> >I have no idea. Have do you tried other servers: lighttpd, Apache in this
> >environment ?


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