Hi Maxim, thanks for your help. I'm not using a proxy, it's just a straight connection to nginx. I ran it again with error log on info and found that it thinks the client is timing out, although watching firefox it seemed to be downloading ok the entire time and I wasn't having connectivity issues on other sites. I tried keepalive_timeout 65; rather than 5 but had the same problem. Herby nickn - Nginx Mailing List - English
An ideas why nginx would be cutting the downloads short?by nickn - Nginx Mailing List - English
Hi, 1.) What would cause nginx to randomly stop serving large file downloads? When I try to download a 800MB file it stops serving the file after between 10 and 30 MB. I've had to revert to lighttpd because of this. I checked the usual things: There wasn't anything in the error log, the system had plenty of memory (several hundred MB free) and the worker processes were all still there after thby nickn - Nginx Mailing List - English