upstream keepalive - call for testing

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 04:24:45PM +0100, António P. P. Almeida wrote:

> On 1 Ago 2011 17h07 WEST, mdounin at mdounin.ru wrote:
> 
> > Hello!
> >
> > JFYI:
> >
> > Last week I posted patch to nginx-devel@ which adds keepalive
> > support to various backends (as with upstream keepalive module), 
> > including fastcgi and http backends (this in turn means nginx now 
> > able to talk HTTP/1.1 to backends, in particular it now 
> > understands chunked responses).  Patch applies to 1.0.5 and 1.1.0.
> >
> > Testing is appreciated.
> >
> > You may find patch and description here:
> >
> > http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-devel/2011-July/001057.html
> >
> > Patch itself may be downloaded here:
> >
> > http://nginx.org/patches/patch-nginx-keepalive-full.txt
> >
> > Upstream keepalive module may be downloaded here:
> >
> > http://mdounin.ru/hg/ngx_http_upstream_keepalive/
> > http://mdounin.ru/files/ngx_http_upstream_keepalive-0.4.tar.gz
> >
> 
> So *either* we use the patch or use the module. Correct?

No, to keep backend connections alive you need module *and* patch.  
Patch provides foundation in nginx core for module to work with 
fastcgi and http.

Maxim Dounin