Problem in nginx with proxy_cache on

Qiu Linfeng qlinfeng at gmail.com
Wed May 27 06:39:43 MSD 2009


hi,
thanks for your reply, I used your method and this problem didn't re-appear.
Another question.
Does proxy_cache support LRU? I read the code and find the die out of the
cache item is freed by the expire time. That is, when the cache add does not
succeed, it will check the expire queue and free the expired item? Am I
right?

2009/5/26 Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru>

> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 10:08:57AM +0800, Qiu Linfeng wrote:
>
> > hi,all
> > Recently, I used nginx and found a problem. The problem is at the memory
> > pool while I turn on the proxy_cache.
> > Here is how I found it.
> > I use a tool to test nginx (with proxy_cache on) and found that  CPU idle
> is
> > zero while the IO  didn't get to 100%.
> > So, I think there must have performance problem  in nginx with
> proxy_cache
> > on. I used VTune to find the problem. The VTune Report shows 98% of CPU
> run
> > at the fuction ngx_palloc() in  ngx_palloc.c.
> > I read the code and I think while nginx alloc memory from a pool,  there
> is
> > a cycle to get the free memory of the pool, the cycle do a lot of times.
> At
> > last, I get rid of the do...while, just let each memory alloc  from the
> > function ngx_palloc_block(). Obviously, I get rid of the "for" cycle in
> > ngx_palloc_block() too. And the performance is improved a lot, while the
> CPU
> > idle is not zero and the IO utils get to 100%.
> > Can this problem be resolved in a good way?
> > thanks for all
>
> Try to change NGX_ALIGNMENT to 16.
>
>
> --
> Igor Sysoev
> http://sysoev.ru/en/
>
>


-- 
Regards,
Linfeng Qiu
Department of Computer Science & Technology, Nanjing University
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