FastCGI and pipelining

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 12:04:35PM -0500, chuda wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm recently start using NGINX in combination with my FastCGI service,
> it work quite good and effective.
> I decided to use pipeline as it works effectively utilizing one
> connection.
> According to NGINX logs pipelining is work, but I mentioned interesting
> thing - NGINX passes request to FCGI in synchronous mode, i.e. it'll
> send the next request only after the first one will complete.
> 
> It's weired for me.
> 
> Is such behavior is expected?

Yes.  Pipelined requests from client are processed in order.  That 
is, processing of next request starts only when previous requests 
was handled and response sent (at least to socket buffer).

Maxim Dounin