bug in access logging with multiple workers on Windows?

[rmalayter]

I think I've run into a Windows-specific bug with access logging and multiple worker processes with file locking.

Whenever I have access logging enabled (at the http or server layers), and I increase the number of worker processes to more than 1, nginx 0.8.19 will not respond to any requests (although it does accept connections on port 80).

I have nginx set up as a proxy to a legacy web application, running on localhost on port 10080. Below is the troublesome configuration (comments stripped). It works fine if I either disable the access log, or set number of worker processes to 1. But having both enabled causes the hang (presumably a file locking issue between the multiple workers?).


worker_processes  2;
events {
    worker_connections  1024;
}
http {
    include       mime.types;
    default_type  application/octet-stream;
    log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$host" "$request" '
                      '$status $body_bytes_sent "$gzip_ratio" "$http_referer" '
                      '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"';
    sendfile        on;
    keepalive_timeout  65;
    gzip  on;
	gzip_http_version 1.0;
	gzip_comp_level 2;
	gzip_types text/css text/javascript application/x-javascript;
	gzip_proxied any;
    server {
        listen       80;
        server_name_in_redirect off;
        access_log  logs/host.access.log  main;
        location / {
            proxy_pass   http://127.0.0.1:10080;
            proxy_set_header Host $host;
			proxy_read_timeout 900;
        }
        error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;
        location = /50x.html {
            root   html;
        }
    }
}


Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,11625,11625#msg-11625