Enabling proxy_buffering, disk I/O will increase significantly. If you're
running nginx and php on the same server, maybe it's not a good idea to
enable it.

On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Alexandr Gomoliako <zzz@zzz.org.ua> wrote:

> > I'm new to nginx and have a question about the proxy_buffering feature.
>
> > Our topology is very easy:
> > Just nginx - No apache behind it.
> > Our site gets the content (text,pictures,videos) of different sites via
> > php and serves it to the client.
>
> > My question is:
> > Do we need the proxy_buffering? Could we turn it off without performance
> > issues?
>
> You do need it. Otherwise any slow client will block an entire php
> process for a long time.
>
> > I really don't understand this feature, maybe someone could explain it
> > for me. :-)
>
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