Hi, I have a video on demand server. 12x1 TB SATA2 RAID10 with 1Gbps connection, Debian 7 (ext4) I have high disk utilization and so I wanted to make some changes to increase performance for big video files: I made following changes: sendfile off; aio on; directio 512k; output_buffers 1 1m; The disk utilization and the load average went down and the memory usage went up, whichby wolfgangpue - Other discussion
Lucas Rolff Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Else you need to look for "DSR" (Direct Server Return), I'm not > completely sure if nginx actually supports this. Ok, thank you. I think DSR is on a lower level and nginx has no influence on it. I will try another aproach. Because both ngnix servers contain the same files I will code my own loby wolfgangpue - Nginx Mailing List - English
Hi, I am not sure how the load balancer affect the data throughput. For example: I have two nginx server with 1 Gps network connection. When I configure the first server as nginx load balancer and as upstream server and the second server only as upstream server. Is the second upstream server sending its data directly to the client or is the data routed through the load balancer (first sby wolfgangpue - Nginx Mailing List - English