Wordpress.com serves 70k requests/second using Nginx

Re:Wordpress.com serves 70k requests/second using Nginx by mrb on Wednesday September 26, 2012 @10:14PM (#4578999)

My next stop was lighttpd. A fine piece of software, with a persistent bug that caused it to drop into a 500 state if FastCGI instances were ever unavailable.

It is not a bug, it is a feature. lighttpd used to wait 60s before checking the backend again. Nowadays the default is 1s. Set disable-time to 0 if you don't like it (it should be the default IMHO.)

http://redmine.lighttpd.net/projects/lighttpd/wiki/Docs_ModF...

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Re:Wordpress.com serves 70k requests/second using Nginx by jacques_chester on Wednesday September 26, 2012 @11:02PM (#4579082)

The problem was not that lighty gave a 500 error for transient unavailability.

It's that it got stuck in 500. I would have to log in every week or so and restart it when this happened.

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Re:Wordpress.com serves 70k requests/second using Nginx by tlack on Thursday September 27, 2012 @12:16AM (#4579322)

In case you're wondering whatever happened to this bug, it's still happening! I installed the latest release of Lighttpd a few weeks ago and it happened on one of our sites. So amazing to see the same bug still kicking after 3-4 years..

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Re:Wordpress.com serves 70k requests/second using Nginx by martindale on Thursday September 27, 2012 @09:50AM (#4580655)

I have this bug/feature as well, switched to nginx as a result.

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