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1 Keepalive balancer module for nginx.
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3 This module implements cache for backend connections. As of now, it may
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4 be used with memcached upstreams. Support for fastcgi, http and https
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5 requires expiremental patches for nginx.
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7 Configuration directives:
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9 keepalive <num> [single]
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11 Scope: upstream
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13 Switches on keepalive module for the upstream in question.
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15 Parameters:
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17 - <num>
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18 Maximum number of connections to cache. If there isn't enough
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19 room to cache new connections - last recently used connections
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20 will be kicked off the cache.
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22 - single
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23 Treat everything as single host. With this flag connections
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24 to different backends are treated as equal.
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26 Sample configuration:
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28 upstream memd {
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29 server 127.0.0.1:11211;
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30 server 10.0.0.2:11211;
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31 keepalive 10;
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32 }
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34 This module was tested to work with standard round-robin balancing, but
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35 it's believed to be compatible with more sophisticated balancers. The only
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36 requirement is to activate them *before* this module, e.g.:
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38 upstream memd {
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39 server 127.0.0.1:11211;
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40 server 10.0.0.2:11211;
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41 ip_hash;
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42 keepalive 10;
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43 }
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45 To compile nginx with keepalive module, use "--add-module <path>" option to
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46 nginx configure.