Tuning workers and connections

[Dave Cheney]

Try adding

events {
   ...
   use epoll;
}

http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpEventsModule#use

Cheers

Dave


Avleen Vig writes:

> Hi folks, I have some questions about tuning nginx for best
> performance, on a site which handle ~1000 requests per second.
> 
> In our config, we have:
> 
>     worker_processes  16;
>     worker_rlimit_nofile 32768;
>     events {
>         worker_connections  8192;
>     }
> 
> This is on a server with 8 CPU cores and 8Gb RAM.
> My understanding is that this should allow nginx to establish up to
> 32k network connections, because that is the limit of
> worker_rlimit_nofile. We serve very few files off the disk, maybe a
> dozen CSS and JS files. Everything else is handed to backends using
> proxy_pass.
> So with one fd for the browser, and one fd to the upstream, we should
> be able to handle 16k concurrent connections.
> 
> However what we're seeing, is that around 5k connections we get a
> performance hit. Connections slow down, take longer to establish, etc.
> The load on the box is almost zero, nginx is clearly working very fast
> and efficiently, but I'm not sure why it slows down.
> Any thoughts?
> 
> 
> Also, I'm thinking about enabling the multi_accept option, but I
> couldn't find much documentation on how this works.
> It sounds like a high-performance tweak which we should be using if we
> get this many requests per second.
> Could it be that not using multi_accept is the problem?
> Nginx otherwise has to handle the incoming connection requests in
> serial and this is a bottleneck?
> 
> 
> Thanks :)
>