Note the connect(13, ...) and close(13) right after the response has been received. For PHP it's working, but AFAIK there's nothing in the FastCGI protocol that the backend has to do other then keeping the connection open.
gettimeofday({tv_sec=1498125120, tv_usec=540583}, NULL) = 0 recvfrom(3, "GET /v2/rides HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: de"..., 1024, 0, NULL, NULL) = 561 socket(AF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = 13 ioctl(13, FIONBIO, [1]) = 0 epoll_ctl(10, EPOLL_CTL_ADD, 13, {EPOLLIN|EPOLLOUT|EPOLLRDHUP|EPOLLET, {u32=370685264, u64=94674334790992}}) = 0 connect(13, {sa_family=AF_UNIX, sun_path="/tmp/backend.socket"}, 110) = 0 getsockopt(13, SOL_SOCKET, SO_ERROR, [0], [4]) = 0 writev(13, [{iov_base="\1\1\0\1\0\10\0\0\0\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\1\4\0\1\3\344\4\0\17\36SCRIPT"..., iov_len=1040}], 1) = 1040 recvfrom(3, 0x7ffeb4895e57, 1, MSG_PEEK, NULL, NULL) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) epoll_wait(10, [{EPOLLOUT, {u32=370685264, u64=94674334790992}}], 512, 60000) = 1 gettimeofday({tv_sec=1498125120, tv_usec=546097}, NULL) = 0 epoll_wait(10, [{EPOLLIN|EPOLLOUT, {u32=370685264, u64=94674334790992}}], 512, 59994) = 1 gettimeofday({tv_sec=1498125120, tv_usec=550400}, NULL) = 0 recvfrom(13, "\1\6\0\1\7[\0\0Content-Type: applicatio"..., 4096, 0, NULL, NULL) = 1915 readv(13, [{iov_base=0x561b1610558b, iov_len=2181}], 1) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) writev(3, [{iov_base="HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nServer: nginx/1"..., iov_len=201}, {iov_base="712\r\n", iov_len=5}, {iov_base="\37\213\10\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\335\335Oo\334T\30\305\341}?E\325u\211\356?\277\347\274|\3"..., iov_len=1810}, {iov_base="\r\n", iov_len=2}], 4) = 2018 close(13) = 0 writev(3, [{iov_base="0\r\n\r\n", iov_len=5}], 1) = 5 write(4, "84.207.216.34 - - [22/Jun/2017:0"..., 203) = 203 recvfrom(3, 0x561b1616a130, 1024, 0, NULL, NULL) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) epoll_wait(10, [{EPOLLIN|EPOLLOUT, {u32=370684801, u64=94674334790529}}], 512, 65000) = 1 Posted at Nginx Forum: https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,275028,275054#msg-275054 _______________________________________________ nginx mailing list nginx@nginx.org http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx