While it’s not clear why one may need to flush the data on each http operation,
I can imagine to what performance degradation that may lead of.
if it’s not a some kind of funny clustering among nodes, I wouldn't care much
where actual data is, RAM still should be much faster, than disk I/O.
br,
Aziz.
> On 28 Feb 2018, at 12:30, Nagy, Attila <bra@fsn.hu> wrote:
>
> On 02/27/2018 02:24 PM, Maxim Dounin wrote:
>>
>>> Now, that nginx supports running threads, are there plans to convert at
>>> least DAV PUTs into it's own thread(pool), so make it possible to do
>>> non-blocking (from nginx's event loop PoV) fsync on the uploaded file?
>> No, there are no such plans.
>>
>> (Also, trying to do fsync() might not be the best idea even in
>> threads. A reliable server might be a better option.)
>>
> What do you mean by a reliable server?
> I want to make sure when the HTTP operation returns, the file is on the disk, not just in a buffer waiting for an indefinite amount of time to be flushed.
> This is what fsync is for.
>
> Why doing this in a thread is not a good idea? It would'nt block nginx that way.
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