unknown directive "thread_pool"

[Andrew Hutchings]

Ah! That was my next guess. I’m glad you sorted it. If you have this problem again there is a way to do a rolling upgrade without a start/stop, see this link for more info:

http://nginx.org/en/docs/control.html#upgrade

Kind Regards
Andrew

> On 27 May 2015, at 15:57, Richard Kearsley <richard at kearsley.me> wrote:
> 
> Thanks Andrew
> I figured this out but it was not a duplicate binary
> It was because I was issuing -HUP to reload nginx rather than proper start/stop :-[
> 
> Cheers
> Richard
> 
> On 27/05/15 14:34, Andrew Hutchings wrote:
>> Hi Richard,
>> 
>> Do you have an Ubuntu package for Nginx installed also (usually installed in /usr/sbin)? Depending on how you are starting it the wrong executable may be being used.
>> 
>> Kind Regards
>> Andrew
>> 
>>> On 27 May 2015, at 13:22, Richard Kearsley <richard at kearsley.me> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi
>>> First time trying aio threads on linux, and I am getting this error
>>> 
>>> [emerg] 19909#0: unknown directive "thread_pool" in /usr/local/nginx/conf/nginx.conf:7
>>> 
>>> Line7 reads:
>>> thread_pool testpool threads=64 max_queue=65536;
>>> 
>>> Everything indicates it was built --with-threads, so I'm not sure where to go from here
>>> 
>>> nginx -V:
>>> /usr/local/nginx/sbin/nginx -V
>>> nginx version: nginx/1.9.1 built by gcc 4.8.2 (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1) configure arguments: --with-debug --with-file-aio --with-threads
>>> 
>>> from configure output:
>>> Configuration summary
>>> + using threads
>>> 
>>> Any help appreciated
>>> Thanks
>>> Richard
>>> 
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