Uploads with nginx 1.0.12

[Valentin V. Bartenev]

On Thursday 01 March 2012 00:35:51 Cliff Wells wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 20:59 +0100, Adrián Navarro wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > 
> > I am using file uploads with nginx 1.0.12, php5-fpm and php 5.3.10.
> > 
> > 
> > Currently, big file uploads (~1300 MB) do take about 30 seconds to
> > process after the file is being uploaded, and the CPU load spikes. Is
> > there a way to prevent that?
> 
> I assume that since the spike occurs *after* the upload, the culprit is
> PHP, not Nginx?
> 
> > I am using a very simple script (just a var_dump($_FILES), nothing
> > more,
> 
> Assuming the spike is caused by PHP, you might take a look at the
> nginx_upload module, which will handle the entire upload process for
> you, and just hand your PHP script a path to the uploaded file (along
> with a few other parameters).
> 

Actually,
 
 fastcgi_pass_request_body off;
 client_body_in_file_only clean;
 fastcgi_param  REQUEST_BODY_FILE  $request_body_file;

should do approximately the same.

 wbr, Valentin V. Bartenev