I have been doing some load tests against Nginx and have found
significant client-side latency outliers at the 99.9th percentile.
During the load test, I'm looking at iostat and it's showing me mostly
zero utilization. When I log to a tmpfs instead, the outliers go away.
When I use buffer=32M, the outliers come much less frequently. This
leads me to believe that the synchronous write in the
ngx_http_log_module is contributing to the latency as the worker threads
can't accept until they're done writing.

I'm considering adding asynchronous logging to the module and wanted
input. So far, I planning on using aio and would like to know if this is
a bad idea or not. I saw recently that the aio module was deprecated,
but I'm not sure why.

Thanks,
Shawn J. Goff

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