Possibly leveraging shared memory or memcached :)

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On Aug 30, 2009, at 8:15 AM, "gogobu" <nginx-forum@nginx.us> wrote:

> Valery Kholodkov Wrote:
> -------------------------------------------------------
>> gogobu wrote:
>>> I've noticed the following config settings in
>> the document:
>>>
>>> proxy_hide_header Content-Type;
>>
>> This you need in case if storage node does not
>> specify correct content
>> type (and it usually does not). The content type
>> will be then resolved
>> via request URI extension.
>>
>>> proxy_buffering off;
>>
>> This prevents nginx from accumulating response in
>> memory or writing ont
>> disk, thus saving resources which were already
>> used on storage node.
>>
>>> Is there any particular reason for this
>> setting?
>>>
>>> Just an idea, is it possible to enable
>> proxy_buffering and use proxy_cache to cache the
>> tracker URLs?
>>
>> It is possible to enable proxy_buffering and I
>> don't know what impact on
>> performance it will have. And it is not possible
>> to cache the URLs
>> returned by the tracker, but might be possible to
>> cache the returned
>> entity itself.
>>
>> --
>> Best regards,
>> Valery Kholodkov
>
> Got it. Thanks for the explanation.
>
> Caching the entity itself is probably too heavy... it would be
> better if you could implement the cache feature for the URLs so the
> trackers would be less stressed.
>
> Thanks and please keep up the good work!
> Michael
>
> Posted at Nginx Forum: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,4462,5349#msg-5349
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