Cliff Wells Wrote:
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> So maybe you should post your configuration?
>


Well the following is my configuration :

Server Configuration
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Processor : 2x AMD Quad core 2382 @ 2.70Hz

Ram : 32GB memory

OS : CentOS release 5.3 (Final)



Nginx Version
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nginx version: nginx/0.7.65
built by gcc 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-46)
configure arguments: --with-poll_module --with-select_module --with-rtsig_module


Sample Configuration File
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# user and group to run as
user root;

# number of nginx workers
worker_processes 2;


# pid of nginx master process
pid /var/run/nginx.pid;

# Number of worker connections. 1024 is a good default
events {
worker_connections 4000;
#use poll;
multi_accept on;
accept_mutex on;
accept_mutex_delay 50ms;
epoll_events 1024;
}

# start the http module where we config http access.
http {
# pull in mime-types. You can break out your config
# into as many include's as you want to make it cleaner
include /usr/local/nginx/conf/mime.types;

# set a default type for the rare situation that
# nothing matches from the mimie-type include
default_type application/octet-stream;

charset utf-8;
source_charset utf-8;
clinet_header_buffer_size 40k;
large_clinet_header_buffers 4 30k;

# configure log format

log_format main '"Status" $status "Bytes" $bytes_sent "u Addr:" $upstream_addr "u status" $upstream_status "U Response"

$upstream_response_time "MSec" $msec ';

log_format error '"Status" $status "Bytes" $bytes_sent "u Addr:" $upstream_addr "u status" $upstream_status "U Response"

$upstream_response_time "MSec" $msec ';

# main access log
#access_log /var/log/nginx/nginx_access.log main;
access_log off;

# main error log
error_log /var/log/nginx/nginx_error.log error;

# no sendfile on OSX
sendfile on;
keepalive_timeout 5;
# These are good default values.
tcp_nopush on;
tcp_nodelay on;
# output compression saves bandwidth
gzip off;

client_body_timeout 1s;

upstream Sample {

server 127.0.0.1:9000;
server 127.0.0.1:9001;
server 127.0.0.1:9002;
server 127.0.0.1:9003;
server 127.0.0.1:9004;
}

server {

listen 80;

client_max_body_size 100M;

server_name www.sample.com;

root /home/public;

location ~*

^.+\.(jpg|jpeg|JPG|JPEG|GIF|gif|png|ico|css|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|xls|exe|pdf|ppt|txt|tar|mid|midi|wav|bmp|rtf|js|mov)$ {
root /home/public;
expires 7d;

location / {
proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
if ($request_method !~ ^(GET|POST|HEAD) {
return 444;
}

proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
proxy_set_header Host $http_host;
#proxy_redirect off;
proxy_max_temp_file_size 0;
proxy_connect_timeout 30;
break;
proxy_pass http://Sample;
}

Regards,
Bala.