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Re:Wordpress.com serves 70k requests/second using Nginx by velodrome on Thursday September 27, 2012 @12:38PM (#4581486)
It is only a 1k chunk. This sucks for chat-type applications (<1k per message) and slow apps.

Also, in that example, you can't use gzip. If I use a nginx+apache setup, I can do output flushing and gzip. I hope nginx fixes this issue.

*This affects php/fcgi.

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Re:Wordpress.com serves 70k requests/second using Nginx by nnq on Friday September 28, 2012 @01:15PM (#4586619)
Nice to know! Thanks for clarifying.
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