Nginx performance data

[James Read]

On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 1:13 PM Anoop Alias <anoopalias01 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> https://www.nginx.com/blog/inside-nginx-how-we-designed-for-performance-scale/
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Nice article. So the short answer is that Nginx does in fact use multiple
processes. Does anybody know what timeout is used in Nginx call to
epoll_wait()? Is there some heuristic for calculating the optimal timeout
on each iteration?

James Read


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> On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 6:33 PM James Read <jamesread5737 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 11:56 AM Anoop Alias <anoopalias01 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> This basically depends on your hardware and network speed etc
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>>> Nginx is event-driven and does not fork a separate process for handling
>>> new connections which basically makes it different from Apache httpd
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>> Just to be clear Nginx is entirely single threaded?
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>> James Read
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>>> On Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 5:48 AM James Read <jamesread5737 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
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>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I have some questions about Nginx performance. How many concurrent
>>>> connections can Nginx handle? What throughput can Nginx achieve when
>>>> serving a large number of small pages to a large number of clients (the
>>>> maximum number supported)? How does Nginx achieve its performance? Is the
>>>> epoll event loop all done in a single thread or are multiple threads used
>>>> to split the work of serving so many different clients?
>>>>
>>>> thanks in advance
>>>> James Read
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