proxy buffering for media files?

Maxim Dounin mdounin at mdounin.ru
Wed Sep 4 15:19:01 UTC 2013


Hello!

On Wed, Sep 04, 2013 at 10:45:12AM -0400, bkosborne wrote:

> Hmm okay, so that would essentially buffer as much as it can in RAM (which
> really wouldn't be much based on the default buffer sizes). Once that in
> memory buffer becomes full, then what happens? It starts sending the data to
> the client thats in the buffer as well any anything that isn't?

When all buffers are full, nginx will stop reading data from the 
upstream server till some buffers are sent to the client.

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