NGINX microcaching producing high FBT times.

Posted by likewhoa on February 20, 2013 at 3:10am

I have a site setup were I am benchmarking boost with nginx vs nginx with microcaching and it shows that using microcaching produces a First Byte Time of around 0.984s while nginx+boost without microcaching produces 0.257s.

I know that microcaching should be producing better or similar numbers but in my case it's the appositive.

I like to get to the bottom of this odd issue.

P.S I am using perusio's d6 branch

Categories: boost, cache performance, drupal-with-nginx, nginx

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Do you have

Posted by perusio on February 22, 2013 at 3:35pm

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Boost enabled simultaneously with microcaching?

Are you sure that Nginx is caching the responses? What does a curl -I <some page> gives?

yea it's running but not

Posted by likewhoa on February 24, 2013 at 6:49am

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yea it's running but not getting any HITS, I looked at the config and it seems that it won't do any caching when a cookie is set which is what is happening in this particular case.

the output from curl is:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx
Date: 2013年2月24日 06:43:28 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Connection: keep-alive
Keep-Alive: timeout=10
Vary: Accept-Encoding
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.4.11
Set-Cookie: SESSd44c9ba5a11a2f44fd4ffd9f59=j5rsfco2l2t9v76nn5ge1; expires=Tue, 19-Mar-2013 10:16:47 GMT; path=/; domain=.foobar.com
Expires: 1970年1月01日 00:00:01 GMT
Last-Modified: 2013年2月24日 06:43:27 GMT
Cache-Control: no-cache
X-Micro-Cache: MISS

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