nginx, solaris, eventport

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 02:13:38AM -0400, drook wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> I'm using nginx on Solaris for years. For years I've been experiencing
> errors when eventport is on (with /dev/poll everything is fine, but I'm
> kinda perfectionist and I want to use native solaris features).
> 
> I realize that screaming "help with eventport" is counter-productive, so how
> can I localize/debug my troubles to write a comprehensive error report ?
> Right now the problem looks like the inability to connect to port 80 which
> nginx is listening on, error log on the "notice" level is silent about
> reasons of this. Restarting nginx helps. Will switching to "debug" loglevel
> clarify this or do I need to do something else ?

There are number of known problems with eventport implementation, 
notably related to work with upstream servers.  It needs 
attention.

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Maxim Dounin
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