Comments on: Thin, Ruby on Rails & Nginx fair proxy: Performance testing http://www.misuse.org/science/2008/04/07/thin-ruby-on-rails-nginx-fair-proxy-performance-testing/ It would be a good idea. Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:41:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: science http://www.misuse.org/science/2008/04/07/thin-ruby-on-rails-nginx-fair-proxy-performance-testing/#comment-3500 science Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:42:15 +0000 http://www.misuse.org/science/2008/04/07/thin-ruby-on-rails-nginx-fair-proxy-performance-testing/#comment-3500 Mark: I'm running a pretty stock nginx config from EngineYard with just a few tweaks for page caching. You can get the nginx.conf from EY by booting their "express" version to see how their setup differs from yours: http://express.engineyard.com/ I gave up on fair b/c my server responses are all reasonable even and the weird blockages you refer to were bugging me. I'm not sure what is causing them so I don't know if fail_timeouts would make a different or not. My only suggestion is to build an eval rig and put a test load on it in the various configs. Mark: I’m running a pretty stock nginx config from EngineYard with just a few tweaks for page caching. You can get the nginx.conf from EY by booting their “express” version to see how their setup differs from yours:

http://express.engineyard.com/

I gave up on fair b/c my server responses are all reasonable even and the weird blockages you refer to were bugging me. I’m not sure what is causing them so I don’t know if fail_timeouts would make a different or not. My only suggestion is to build an eval rig and put a test load on it in the various configs.

]]> By: Mark Foster http://www.misuse.org/science/2008/04/07/thin-ruby-on-rails-nginx-fair-proxy-performance-testing/#comment-3499 Mark Foster Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:32:18 +0000 http://www.misuse.org/science/2008/04/07/thin-ruby-on-rails-nginx-fair-proxy-performance-testing/#comment-3499 Interesting results. I wonder if you could share your nginx settings? We've also been using nginx+fair in front of mongrel and unsatisfied with the 'blockages' that are occurring. Is it better to use shorter fail_timeouts with fair? Interesting results. I wonder if you could share your nginx settings? We’ve also been using nginx+fair in front of mongrel and unsatisfied with the ‘blockages’ that are occurring. Is it better to use shorter fail_timeouts with fair?

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