While reading articles about optimization, I read about the accf_http module. The man page of the module is here, where you can read: The utility of accf_http is such that a server will not have to context switch several times before performing the initial parsing of the request. To load this module, use the following [...]
As you may know, when using memcached on 32-bit servers, processes can only address 4GB of virtual memory making the memcached daemon handle only 2 or 3 Gb of memory. If you want to address more memory, you need to launch multiple memcached daemons. I wrote an rc script , mmemcached, for FreeBSD to manage [...]
To rotate your nginx log files, you can use the log file handler provided by FreeBSD: newsyslog. Configuring /etc/newsyslog.conf /var/log/nginx-access.log 644 7 1024 * JC /var/run/nginx.pid /var/log/nginx-error.log 644 7 1024 * JC /var/run/nginx.pid Before log rotation: -rw-r–r– 1 root wheel 104278002 Jul 16 11:35 nginx-access.log -rw-r–r– 1 root wheel 1509531 Jul 16 11:17 nginx-error.log After [...]