Making nginx "feel" faster?

Server NGINX
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Hi guys

I’m working on a mediatemple server (US) from the UK and it looks like
there’s a limit with the bandwidth from the server. Sites on that box
are slow, whether they’re dynamic or not. nginx has 8 worker threads
(with 8 php-fastcgi threads waiting), keepalive is set to 3, static
files are being told to cache, and gzip is enabled.

Are there any other tweaks I can do to nginx to make the responses feel
faster? Maybe reduce the chunk size or something?

Cheers,
Phill

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On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 02:51:56PM +0000, Phillip B Oldham wrote:

Hi guys

I’m working on a mediatemple server (US) from the UK and it looks like
there’s a limit with the bandwidth from the server. Sites on that box
are slow, whether they’re dynamic or not. nginx has 8 worker threads
(with 8 php-fastcgi threads waiting), keepalive is set to 3, static
files are being told to cache, and gzip is enabled.

You do not need worker per each php-fastcgi process.
Single worker is enough for this.

Are there any other tweaks I can do to nginx to make the responses feel
faster? Maybe reduce the chunk size or something?

I have no idea. Have do you tried other servers: lighttpd, Apache in
this
environment ?

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On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 07:52:29AM +0000, Phillip B Oldham wrote:

Yes - lighttpd had lots of problems with 500 errors due to php processes
ending unexpectedly. Haven’t tried apache, but I don’t much fancy
playing with fastcgi with apache or re-compiling php.

But what about response feeling ?
Did lighttpd send static faster ?

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The response felt worse, to my memory. We dropped it very quickly
because of the 500 errors due to the php issue: they were making our
site totally unusable.

I thought there might’ve been some tweaks we could do to reponse packet
size or something to help speed things up. If not its not a problem -
we’ll probably just move server to one based in the UK so we don’t have
the trans-atlantic jump.

5

Yes - lighttpd had lots of problems with 500 errors due to php processes
ending unexpectedly. Haven’t tried apache, but I don’t much fancy
playing with fastcgi with apache or re-compiling php.

Igor S. wrote:

environment ?

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Phillip B Oldham
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