nginx cache, worth it to put it on a ramdisk?

2013-04-22 Thread Joseph Cabezas
Hello, I have a reverse proxy that has a cache set up for static content working, as traffic increases iam wondering if its worth it to put the cache on a ramdisk or would the normal file caching/buffer in ram from the linux kernel be sufficient? The size of the cache is 30mb. Thanks Joseph

RE: nginx eating all RAM, log files?

2013-04-22 Thread Joseph Cabezas
Maxim, Thank you...!! Regards, Josephan/listinfo/nginx ___ nginx mailing list nginx@nginx.org http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx

RE: nginx eating all RAM, log files?

2013-04-22 Thread Joseph Cabezas
d ram with cached versions of the most recently used files so they don't have to be read from disk each time... it's completely normal and expected behaviour :) On 22/04/13 19:30, Joseph Cabezas wrote: I have two nginx instances (ng

nginx eating all RAM, log files?

2013-04-22 Thread Joseph Cabezas
I have two nginx instances (nginx/1.0.15) on a 4GB RAM machine. Each instance runs fewer than 25 requests as reported with stub_status on; The problem is that once nginx is started from scratch it starts eating (or reserving?) RAM progressively as reported by free -m, up to the point where it