nginx & upstream_response_time

[Marcin Deranek]

Hi Maxim,

On Tue, 2 Oct 2012 18:30:07 +0400
Maxim Dounin <mdounin at mdounin.ru> wrote:

> You asked nginx to work in unbuffered mode, and in this mode 
> doesn't pay much attention to what happens with backend connection 
> if it isn't able to write data it already has to a client.  In 
> particular it won't detect connection close by the backend (and 
> stop counting $upstream_response_time).

I see.

> This is probably could be somewhat enhanced, but if you care about 
> $upstream_response_time it most likely means you don't need  
> "uwsgi_buffering off" and vice versa.

Well, I don't completely agree. As it was explained at
http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,193347,193446#msg-193446 some sort of
buffering still takes place even though we work in unbuffered mode. The
only reason why we went for unbuffered mode is latency.
Regards,

Marcin