wrong list really - you'd want the nginx list, but if this is normal
behavior then yes i agree, limiting what gzip_static does would be a
lot cleaner than trying to hit .gz of things that shouldn't be gzipped
normally...
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 2:26 AM, Milan Babuskov
<milan.babuskov@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have nginx installed with gzip_static activated. It works fine for
> CSS and JavaScript files, but it also looks for gzipped versions of
> image files like .png and .gif, although these are not in the list of
> files to be compressed:
>
> # strace -p 25044 2>&1 | grep gz
> open("/var/www/css/ymax.css.gz", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = 438
> open("/var/www/images/tools.png.gz", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = -1 ENOENT
> (No such file or directory)
> open("/var/www/images/ads/bs.gif.gz", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = -1 ENOENT
> (No such file or directory)
> open("/var/www/images/gfxborder/border_right.gif.gz", O_RDONLY|
> O_NONBLOCK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
> open("/var/www/images/ads/hocuto03.gif.gz", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) = -1
> ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>
> Here's my nginx configuration:
>
> gzip on;
> gzip_disable "msie6";
> gzip_min_length 1000;
> gzip_types text/plain text/css application/x-javascript text/
> javascript;
> gzip_static on;
>
> I don't know whether calling open() that fails for 60% of requests
> affects performance, but is there a way to prevent this?
>
> Thanks,
> Milan.
>
