log rotation on windows?

[Igor Sysoev]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 07:03:43AM -0400, Arthur Blake wrote:

> My apologies:  I see now that this behavior is clearly documented here:
> http://nginx.org/en/docs/windows.html it was confusing to me whether
> wiki.nginx.org or nginx.org is the official documentation page.\

nginx can run as a service itself, but it should be run by another
utility. Probably nginx should use "Global\" prefix, i.e.
"Global\ngx_reopen_XXX", because srvany/etc may change session.
Tomorrow I will make a test-build with this prefix to test it.

> Thanks for this great software!
> I was able to replace 4 load balanced Apache servers that could not handle a
> high request load (>1000 requests per second) with one nginx instance on a
> single server that could handle all that load with a small amount of memory
> and staying at around 10% cpu.  Is nginx on windows still considered
> inferior in performance to the linux version?  Despite that, it seems to
> blow away apache on windows.
> 
> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:13 AM, Arthur Blake <arthur.blake at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> > I tried that and it does not work either, but I've found that if I run
> > nginx directly from the command line, it does work.
> >
> > I am using a windows service wrapper so that nginx can continue to run when
> > I'm logged off (as documented here
> > http://misterdai.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/nginx-windows-service/)
> > In fact, none of the -s commands work when I'm running it under a service.
> >  Any ideas why not?  I tried it both under an administrator account and the
> > actual account that it is running under as a service...
> >
> > It wasn't clear to me that "-s reopen" was for reopening the log files (not
> > anywhere on the wiki or faq.  I guess it's supposed to be obvious?)
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Igor Sysoev <igor at sysoev.ru> wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:53:38AM -0400, Arthur Blake wrote:
> >>
> >> > C:\nginx>tasklist /fi "imagename eq nginx"
> >> > INFO: No tasks are running which match the specified criteria.
> >> >
> >> > C:\nginx>tasklist /fi "imagename eq nginx.exe"
> >> >
> >> > Image Name                     PID Session Name        Session#    Mem
> >> Usage
> >> > ========================= ======== ================ ===========
> >> ============
> >> > nginx.exe                     1884 Services                   0
> >>  4,460 K
> >> > nginx.exe                     1752 Services                   0
> >>  5,512 K
> >>
> >> Strange, there is a process with 1884 pid. The event should exist.
> >> Could you terminate the nginx processes, then start nginx again and try
> >> to run "nginx -s reopen" ?
> >>
> >> > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Igor Sysoev <igor at sysoev.ru> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 10:44:21AM -0400, Arthur Blake wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > > I get this error:
> >> > > >
> >> > > > C:\nginx>nginx -s reopen
> >> > > > [error]: OpenEvent("ngx_reopen_1884") failed (2: The system cannot
> >> find
> >> > > the
> >> > > > file specified)
> >> > >
> >> > > What does
> >> > >
> >> > > tasklist /fi "imagename eq nginx.exe"
> >> > >
> >> > > show ?
> >> > >
> >> > >
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