Optimizing web servers for high throughput and low latency

Re:Optimizing web servers for high throughput and low latency by jbergstroem on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @03:18PM (#15186348)

I thoroughly appreciate how the majority of the article doesn't even go into the nginx config whereas most of the internet would discuss a result of the search query "optimized nginx config". Much [for me] to learn and much appreciated, Alexey.

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Re:Optimizing web servers for high throughput and low latency by mfjordvald on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @04:17PM (#15186780)

One of my more popular blog posts is exactly about how to "optimise" nginx for high traffic loads and the gist of it is pretty much "you can't really do much, but here's some minor stuff". I consider that a good thing though, a web server shouldn't really require config tweaking to perform well.

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Re:Optimizing web servers for high throughput and low latency by jbergstroem on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @05:04PM (#15187126)

Definitely! Sane defaults and config readability is pretty much the main reason I recommend nginx.

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Re:Optimizing web servers for high throughput and low latency by derefr on Thursday September 07, 2017 @07:17PM (#15196657)

I recall there being a good presentation by WhatsApp about optimizing not just the web server, but the OS (FreeBSD, in their case) to solve the C100K/C1M problem. It seemed that there was a lot more low-hanging fruit on the OS side than on the webserver side.

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Re:Optimizing web servers for high throughput and low latency by bogomipz on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @05:04PM (#15187129)

>"One of my more popular blog posts is exactly about how to "optimise" nginx for high traffic loads and the gist of it is pretty much "you can't really do much, but here's some minor stuff"."

Could you provide a link for that blog post? I am not seeing it.

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Re:Optimizing web servers for high throughput and low latency by 62747478182 on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @05:35PM (#15187321)

Maybe https://blog.martinfjordvald.com/2011/04/optimizing-nginx-fo...

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Re:Optimizing web servers for high throughput and low latency by Twirrim on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @06:52PM (#15187789)

I spent some time looking at this recently. I'm focussed on throughput, not high TPS. The quality of blog posts is absolutely atrocious. There's a lot of blog posts that amount to "Set this setting to this value" but no real explanation why, or what the setting actually does. Some of what I've seen are actually downright dangerous.

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