Nginx Performance Bacon Configuration

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# Nginx configuration file
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user                 www-data;

# must match your number of CPU cores
worker_processes     6;

# max open files (but this reflects the amount already setup on our system)
worker_rlimit_nofile 500000;

pid /var/run/nginx.pid;

events {
   # concurrent clients served by worker
   # tried other values from 1024 to 32768 without better results
	worker_connections   4096;

	# accept() as many connections as possible
	multi_accept         on;

	# in case that's not the default policy under Linux...
	use                  epoll;
}

http {
   charset              utf-8; # HTTP "Content-Type:" header
	sendfile             on;
	tcp_nopush           on;
	tcp_nodelay          on;
	keepalive_timeout    10;
	keepalive_requests   10; # 1000+ slows-down nginx  enormously...

	types_hash_max_size  2048;
	include /usr/local/nginx/conf/mime.types;
	default_type application/octet-stream;

	gzip                 on;
	gzip_min_length      500;

	gzip_vary            on; # HTTP "Vary: Accept-Encoding" header
	gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;

   server {
      listen               127.0.0.1:8080;
      index                index.html;

	   access_log           off;
      error_log            /dev/null crit;

      root                 /usr/local/nginx/html;
      location = /nop.gif {
                           empty_gif;
      }
      location /imgs {
                           autoindex on;
      }
   }
}
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