Hi,
I have a rails application that is hosted through nginx and passenger.
In
this application I want provide very large files for the users to
download
(>2GB) using send_file … which is working just fine on the development
and
staging system. On the production system however the system tmp
directory is
limited to 1GB (separately mounted disk).
When triggering a download, the tmp folder quickly fills up and the
download
breaks once it is completely full. I already moved passengers /tmp
directory
to a new location but could find how to do the same for nginx (I did set
$tmp and $tmpdir with no effect).
When looking into the /tmp directory however, I cannot find any large
files
that would explain what is happening, nevertheless, df reports it is
filling
up at the same time …
Lastly … I also specified the proxy_temp_path directive in the nginx
config. Again with no effect.
Is there any way to specify which directory nginx uses for its tmp data?
Is
nginx even the culprit here?
Thanks … any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Tim
Posted at Nginx Forum:
Hello!
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 10:58:47AM -0400, Tatonka wrote:
to a new location but could find how to do the same for nginx (I did set
$tmp and $tmpdir with no effect).
When looking into the /tmp directory however, I cannot find any large files
that would explain what is happening, nevertheless, df reports it is filling
up at the same time …
Lastly … I also specified the proxy_temp_path directive in the nginx
config. Again with no effect.
The proxy_temp_path is related to the problem, but it’s for proxy,
not for passenger, and it’s expected that it has no effect in your
case.
Is there any way to specify which directory nginx uses for its tmp data? Is
nginx even the culprit here?
That’s not about nginx, but rather about passenger module for
nginx.
Last time I checked, passenger module for nginx implemented its
own protocol for the upstream module (like proxy/fastcgi/etc), and
should have its own “…_temp_path” directive, as well as
“…_max_temp_file_size” and so on.
–
Maxim D.
http://nginx.org/
Hi Maxim,
thanks for your answer.
I tried redirecting passengers tmp dir as well using the tmp_dir
directive
as well as using the env variables. For the “regular” passenger tmp
files,
this seems to work fine (they appear in the new location).
My main problem is that I can’t even see the file that is using up so
much
space in the /tmp dir and am quite frankly at a loss how that is even
possible.
Anyways. Thanks for your help. I’ll try to dig into the passenger config
a
little more.
Tim
Posted at Nginx Forum:
Hello!
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 03:22:11PM +0400, Andrei B. wrote:
this application I want provide very large files for the users to download
that would explain what is happening, nevertheless, df reports it is filling
nginx even the culprit here?
https://github.com/phusion/passenger/blob/master/ext/nginx/Configuration.c#L55-L57
It uses NGX_HTTP_PROXY_TEMP_PATH which is set at configure stage.
And it looks like it doesn’t provide relevant directives, so the
only option left is to switch off buffering completely, using the
“passenger_buffer_response” directive (which is again incorrectly
named, it should be “…_buffering”).
Well, I never had a reason to say anything good about passenger,
so it’s at least consistent… 
–
Maxim D.
http://nginx.org/
On 11 Jun 2014, at 23:23, Maxim D. [email protected] wrote:
limited to 1GB (separately mounted disk).
Lastly … I also specified the proxy_temp_path directive in the nginx
nginx.
Last time I checked, passenger module for nginx implemented its
own protocol for the upstream module (like proxy/fastcgi/etc), and
should have its own “…_temp_path” directive, as well as
“…_max_temp_file_size” and so on.
Its still true:
https://github.com/phusion/passenger/blob/master/ext/nginx/Configuration.c#L55-L57
It uses NGX_HTTP_PROXY_TEMP_PATH which is set at configure stage.