Hi, I've a Dell R410 with dual Xeon E5530 with 8gb ddr so I would like to
test/discover nginx perfomances.

Here my config file /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf: orker_processes  10;

events {    accept_mutex off;    worker_connections  8192;    use kqueue; }

http {    server_names_hash_bucket_size 64;

   include             /usr/local/etc/nginx/mime.types;    default_type        application/octet-stream;

   log_format upstream '$remote_addr - $host - [$time_local] '                    '"$request" $status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '                    '"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for"
[$upstream_addr]';

   access_log          /var/log/nginx/nginx-access.log;    error_log           /var/log/nginx-error.log;

   # spool uploads to disk instead of clobbering downstream servers    client_body_temp_path /var/spool/nginx-client-body 1 2;    client_max_body_size 32m;    client_body_buffer_size    2048k;

   sendfile            on;    tcp_nopush          on;    tcp_nodelay         off;

   keepalive_timeout   1;

   # proxy settings    proxy_redirect     off;

   proxy_set_header   Host             $host;    proxy_set_header   X-Real-IP        $remote_addr;    proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-For  $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;    proxy_max_temp_file_size 0;

   proxy_connect_timeout      300;    proxy_send_timeout         300;    proxy_read_timeout         300;

   proxy_buffer_size          32k;    proxy_buffers              4 64k;    proxy_busy_buffers_size    64k;    proxy_temp_file_write_size 64k;    include             /usr/local/etc/nginx/upstream.conf;    include             /usr/local/etc/nginx/sites/*.conf; }

And a vhost is defined:

proxy_cache_path /usr/local/www/xxx/cache levels=1:2 keys_zone=XXX:10m
inactive=24h max_size=1g;

server {  ssl on;  ssl_certificate      /usr/local/etc/nginx/certs/xxx.pem;  ssl_certificate_key  /usr/local/etc/nginx/certs/xxx.key;  keepalive_timeout    70;

 listen kkk.kkk.kkk.kkk:443;  server_name xxx.*;  proxy_redirect     off;  proxy_set_header   Host             $host;  proxy_set_header   X-Real-IP        $remote_addr;  proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-For  $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;  proxy_store_access   user:rw  group:rw  all:r;

 proxy_connect_timeout      1200;  proxy_send_timeout         1200;  proxy_read_timeout         1200;

 access_log          /var/log/nginx/xxx-access.log upstream;  error_log           /var/log/nginx/xxx-error.log;

 error_page   500 502 503 504  /50x.html;  location = /50x.html {    root   /usr/local/www/nginx-dist;  }

 location ~ \.(gif|jpg|png)$ {    proxy_pass http://zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz:80;    proxy_cache XXX;    proxy_cache_valid 200 1d;    proxy_cache_use_stale error timeout invalid_header updating http_500 http_502
http_503 http_504;  }

 location / {    proxy_pass http://zzz.zzz.zzz.zzz:80;  } }

May I use httperf? jmeter? Using the config file I could estimate how many
static pages could I serve per period? Other statistics?

Thanks, d.