On 03/07/2013 04:44 PM, Grant wrote: >>> Thanks Michael, I think I will set up nginx to serve my images. That >>> should take a big load off apache. Is nginx still beneficial when >>> using the Worker MPM? >> >> It...depends? >> >> nginx in reverse caching proxy mode will simply serve up objects before >> the httpd it's protecting has to deal with them. Whether the type of an >> MPM makes a significant difference on nginx's value depends more on what >> kind of work you are (or aren't) asking Apache to do. I really couldn't >> answer that for you without knowing the details behind what you're >> running on top of Apache. > > OK, I think either nginx or Worker would help prevent MaxClients from > being reached and using both of them would help even further.
If you're using mod_php, you cannot use MPM Worker. Just sayin. It's so unsupported, they block each other in Portage. > >>> Should I be OK with NGINX_MODULES_HTTP="" in /etc/make.conf if I'm >>> only serving images? > > Any Gentoo'ers running nginx like this? Alan McKinnon remarked that he uses nginx in this capacity.
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