Nginx 1.6.0 + spdy performance testing

[Steve Holdoway]

I add an extra header, just for those who don't understand spdy...

	add_header  Alternate-Protocol "443:npn-spdy/3.1";

and specifically set up ssl protocols/ciphers and ocsp stapling but I'd
suggest that it's a limitation of the benchmark that you're hitting.

Using something like webpagetest.org does show pretty waterfalls of the
differences that delivering sites over spdy makes.

Sorry, pretty useless post really (:

Steve

On Thu, 2014-05-29 at 14:16 -0400, tulio84z wrote:
> I need to evaluate if using spdy will be good for my website but i'm having
> trouble setting everyting up. While using the chrome benchmark extension (1)
> an error message stating that it was not possible to use spdy apeared. This
> made me believe that there might be something wrong with my configuration.
> However, except for two warnings, spdycheck.org tells me that spdy is
> enabled. In (2) you can see what what those warnings are.
> 
> I have two questions: 
> 
> 1. is there anything wrong with my configuration?
> 2. is there any other tool that can be used to run performance tests?
> (please only suggest tools that u have tested yourself).
> 
> Ps.: chrome://net-internals/#spdy also shows that spdy 3.1 is enabled.
> 
> I have posted my configuration file in (2) but for convenience here it is
> again:
> 
> server {
>     listen 80;
>     listen 443  ssl spdy;
> 
>     server_name 54.201.32.118;
> 
>     ssl_certificate /etc/nginx/ssl/tulio.crt;
>     ssl_certificate_key /etc/nginx/ssl/tulio.key;
> 
>     if ($ssl_protocol = "") {
>             rewrite ^  https://$server_name$request_uri? permanent;
>     }
> 
>     root /usr/share/nginx/html;
>     index index.html index.htm;
> 
>     location / {
>             # First attempt to serve request as file, then
>             # as directory, then fall back to displaying a 404.
>             try_files $uri $uri/ =404;
>             # Uncomment to enable naxsi on this location
>             # include /etc/nginx/naxsi.rules
>     }
> }
> 
> 
> (1)
> https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/developers/design-documents/extensions/how-the-extension-system-works/chrome-benchmarking-extension
> 
> (2)
> http://serverfault.com/questions/599491/enabling-spdy-in-nginx-fails-spdycheck-org/599501#599501
> 
> Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,250485,250485#msg-250485
> 
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