bugreport - connection broke on slow clients in proxy mode

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 03:15:26PM +0100, Tomáš Hála wrote:

> Hello,
> we use nginx as reverse proxy to apache server and if we use  
> proxy_max_temp_file_size directive to limit the size of files buffering,  
> downloading larger files with slow connection is always be broken and it  
> is nessesary to start downloading again.
>
> For example, how to replicate the problem:
> Use "proxy_max_temp_file_size 10M" in the proxy configuration, generate  
> about 40MB binary file in document root of the proxyed apache (or maybe  
> other webserver as well) and try to download it with speed limited to  
> 100k/sec. For example with wget:
> wget -t 1 --limit-rate=100k http://server/file
>
> Downloading will fail aproximatly in 12MB. If you download it with full  
> speed (10M in my case), there will be no problem. If you download it  
> directly from the apache server running on diferent tcp port, there will  
> by also no problem. The problem appears on latest stable (0.6.35)  
> version as well as on latest development (0.7.33).
> Feel free to ask me about more details.

I've seen similar problem caused by client timeouts in Apache, 
since from Apache's point of view client downloads about 10M (+ 
nginx proxy memory buffers) and then stops downloading for a 
relatively long time (the time needed for client to download at 
least one memory buffer from nginx).

Maxim Dounin