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Im trying to diagnose a connection issue with nginx on debian. there is an delay of anything from 2-10 seconds on the connection, im using curl to test:

curl -o /dev/null -w "Connect: %{time_connect} TTFB: %{time_starttransfer} Total time: %{time_total} \n" -s http://example.com/forumhome.css Connect: 0.657 TTFB: 1.183 Total time: 7.150 


Here is a pastebin of the tcpdump output for the curl request above: http://pastebin.com/2tdZHqFr


I have also tested using webpagetest.org from different locations and the same connection issue exists.

the files are served from an ssd mounted on another machine.

Linux main 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Wed May 18 23:13:22 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux

nginx conf:

user www-data; worker_processes 4; worker_rlimit_nofile 802768; error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log; pid /var/run/nginx.pid; events { use epoll; worker_connections 60000; multi_accept on; } http { include /etc/nginx/mime.types; # access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log; access_log off; sendfile off; keepalive_timeout 75; tcp_nodelay on; keepalive_requests 2000; connection_pool_size 8192; client_body_buffer_size 1024K; client_header_buffer_size 8k; client_max_body_size 10M; fastcgi_buffers 4 256k; fastcgi_buffer_size 128k; fastcgi_busy_buffers_size 256k; large_client_header_buffers 8 8k; ignore_invalid_headers on; client_header_timeout 60; client_body_timeout 60; send_timeout 60; output_buffers 8 32k; postpone_output 0; server_name_in_redirect off; server_tokens off; tcp_nopush on; gzip on; gzip_min_length 1100; gzip_buffers 32 8k; gzip_comp_level 2; gzip_types text/plain text/html application/x-javascript text/xml text/css text/javascript; gzip_vary on; include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf; include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*; } 

sysctl here -> pastebin systcl

site.conf:

open_file_cache max=5000 inactive=20s; open_file_cache_valid 30s; open_file_cache_min_uses 2; open_file_cache_errors on; server { listen 80 ; ## listen for ipv4 server_name example.com; root /mnt/ssd/www/static; location ~* \.(css|js)$ { expires max; add_header Pragma public; add_header Cache-Control "public, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate"; } } 

ifconfig eth0:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:15:17:26:b4:bd inet addr:x.x.x.x Bcast:x.x.x.x Mask:255.255.254.0 inet6 addr: fe80::215:17ff:fe26:b4bd/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:9000 Metric:1 RX packets:1136534270 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:623191419 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:174357516836 (162.3 GiB) TX bytes:323522620298 (301.3 GiB) Memory:e1a00000-e1a20000 

cat /proc/cpuinfo:

model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz 

cat /proc/meminfo:

MemTotal: 4058884 kB MemFree: 3366684 kB Buffers: 117632 kB Cached: 288320 kB 
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  • What's the server's load look like? Commented Mar 7, 2012 at 22:03
  • the load on the server is fine, never goes above 0.10 and averages around 0.5 here is something interesting but i have no idea what it means, its the tcpdump from the curl request in my original post, maybe someone can make sense of it? this is JUST the tcmpdump for the forumhome.css file in the curl request and nothing else. tcpdump: pastebin.com/2tdZHqFr Commented Mar 8, 2012 at 11:16

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Best check your forward and (especially) reverse dns lookups. This is a usual cause of "slow".

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  • how do i check the forward and reverse dns lookup are not the cause of slow, is there a way to test if that is the problem? Commented Mar 8, 2012 at 11:15
  • Do a dig on the forward and a dig -x on the reverse. Systems often do a reverse lookup on connections for the logs. For example; "dig example.com" = 10.10.10.10, "dig -x 10.10.10.10". Do it from the nginx host. Post the results along with the /etc/resolv.conf. Hopefully Debian has dig. Commented Mar 8, 2012 at 18:34
  • How do you disable the reverse lookup? I've been googling, and looking over the config files, I can't find such an option? Commented Jan 23, 2015 at 12:46

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