On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:50:16AM +0530, Asif Ali wrote:

> Dear All,
> I am trying to resolve a particular issue that is not getting solved easily.
>
> Nginx is able to route requests but the speed of routing is slowing
> down..when I am increasing the number of upstream ports.
>
> I have an app which responds in under 500ms. When I route those requests
> through nginx to about 50 ports, nginx response rates increases to 1500-2500
> ms whereas the app can handle large concurrent requests and there are as
> many as 50 ports.
>
> I have tried this with both fair and e-y load balancer but with similar
> results.
>
> I have also tuned nginx configuration for response times, timeouts etc but
> still I see similar results.
>
> Can anyone advise me if they have experienced a similar problem earlier and
> if they have a solution for this?.

What do you mean by upstream ports ? This

upstream backend {
server backend:9000;
server backend:9001;
server backend:9002;
server backend:9003;
...
}

?

In this case you run 50 backend processes and they compete for CPU.


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