Tweak fastcgi_buffer

[Karl Johnson]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 3:21 PM, Maxim Dounin <mdounin at mdounin.ru> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 05:50:12PM -0400, Karl Johnson wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I need to tweak fastcgi_buffer to 1m on a website that has heavy requests
> > to avoid buffer. If I use a distro with 4096 pagesize, is it better to do
> > 256x 4k or 4x 256k?
> >
> > [root at web ~]# getconf PAGESIZE
> > 4096
> > [root at web ~]#
> >
> > fastcgi_buffer_size 4k;
> > fastcgi_buffers 256 4k;
> >
> > OR
> >
> > fastcgi_buffer_size 256k;
> > fastcgi_buffers 4 256k;
>
> I would recommend the latter.  Or, alternatively, something like
>
>     fastcgi_buffers 8 128k;
>
> Too many small buffers will result in extra processing overhead,
> and it's unlikely to be a good solution.
>

Thanks for the recommendation Maxim. There's no issue setting the buffer to
128k when the pagesize is 4k?

Karl
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