Re: Danger to Nginx from raw unicode in paths?

2015-01-26 Thread Jan-Philip Gehrcke
Hello! In reference to your mail subject, one should note that "raw unicode" does not exist. You should really understand what the term "unicode" means, what the abstract meaning of unicode code points is, and what UTF-8, for example, really is: it is just one of many possible ways to encode

Re: Quick performance deterioration when No. of clients increases

2013-10-19 Thread Jan-Philip Gehrcke
Hi Nikolaos, just a small follow-up on this. In your initial mail you stated > The new VM (using Nginx) currently is in testing mode and it only has > 1-core CPU as well as > When this performance deterioration occurs, we don't see very high CPU > load (Unix load peaks 2.5) These numbers alre

nginx crash on reload -- how to detect?

2013-03-12 Thread Jan-Philip Gehrcke
Hello, I'm currently running a self-built nginx 1.3.14 on a debian system and use the attached (and also inlined) init.d script as /etc/init.d/nginx for managing the service. It's taken unmodified from debian wheezy. I somehow managed to get the nginx master process crashing (I have a few th

Re: Fwd: nginx performance on Amazon EC2

2013-02-21 Thread Jan-Philip Gehrcke
Do you run the benchmark program on the same virtual machine as the web stack?? For yielding conclusive results, you certainly don't want to make ab, nginx, and all other entities involved compete for the same CPU. If yes, try running ab from a different machine in the same network (make sure