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php fastcgi process manager is resurrected

Floren — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:40:08 +0000

I really like the new direction PHP-FPM takes. Andrei decided to take again control of his original work and created a new standalone process manager project.

If you visit the Launchpad project, you will notice that, starting with 0.6.x, PHP-FPM is a standalone daemon, not a patch. I will wait until the PHP 5.3 branch becomes a little more mature, then I will build a new RPM to replace the curent PHP-FPM daemon I use (5.2.10 patched).

nginx 0.7.x branch is now stable

Floren — Tue, 26 May 2009 02:27:59 +0000

The 0.7.x version status is changed to stable, since this morning when Igor released 0.7.59 version. The proxy_cache_methods and fastcgi_cache_methods were added. Now you can also cache a POST, great stuff Igor. I will present Nginx and Sphinx at the next Zendcon conference, if I get accepted.

exec: sysctl fs.file-max

Floren — Tue, 19 May 2009 05:51:42 +0000

Useful when you compare the number of worker connections in #nginx with the number of file descriptors in Redhat/CentOS.

# sysctl fs.file-max
fs.file-max = 203548 (default value on a 64bits OS)

The nginx worker connections consume only about 200 bytes of memory per connection, so setting something like 16384 isn’t a big deal.

wordpress servers powered by nginx

Floren — Sat, 17 May 2008 05:07:26 +0000

There is no doubt nginx is a very solid piece of software, way better then lighty. More and more serious web sites switch to it because it’s the way to go, performance wise.

Barry from WordPress is explaining how they setup nginx into their 300 servers cluster, for their 2 main sites (wordpress.com and gravatar.com).

I feel sorry for Crapache (ahh, I meant Apache). Anyways, check the main WordPress server header:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 04:52:49 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: close
Vary: Cookie
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