Nginx 1.6.0 stable released

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Post by Usu » Thu, Apr 24, 2014, 1:41 PM UTC

Nginx 1.6.0 stable released
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Re: Nginx 1.6.0 stable released

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Post by wbond » Thu, Apr 24, 2014, 1:53 PM UTC

Nice to see we once again have a stable nginx release that supports a version of spdy that browsers currently support!

Re: Nginx 1.6.0 stable released

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Post by vbartathn » Thu, Apr 24, 2014, 1:56 PM UTC

There's also a survey from Nginx Team: http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx/2014-April/043282.h...

Your opinion is needed for a great future of nginx!

Re: Nginx 1.6.0 stable released

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Post by reidrac » Thu, Apr 24, 2014, 2:14 PM UTC

I wonder what is the policy regarding their Debian repositories now that 1.6 is stable (currently we have 1.4.x installed from that same repo).

They broke some stuff in the past moving to 1.4 from an older release, it would be nice to have a "release notes" so we can check what can possibly go wrong (if anything).

The changelog is huge, congratulations to the nginx team!

EDIT: nginx twitter account confirmed that there's no expected disruption upgrading from 1.4 to 1.6. Excellent!

Re: Nginx 1.6.0 stable released

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Post by pedrocr » Thu, Apr 24, 2014, 2:14 PM UTC

I'm currently running apache 2.2.22 on my Ubuntu 12.04 servers. It works fine. I'll be moving them to 14.04 and thus getting apache 2.4.7. I mostly use it for mod_passenger webapps and static sites.

14.04 includes nginx 1.4.6 but I'm sure the phusion guys will package 1.6 soon so I can easily upgrade to that. Is there any killer feature in nginx that I'm missing, staying with apache 2.4?

Re: Nginx 1.6.0 stable released

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Post by cheald » Thu, Apr 24, 2014, 2:18 PM UTC

pedrocr wrote: post #5

I'm currently running apache 2.2.22 on my Ubuntu 12.04 servers. It works fine. I'll be moving them to 14.04 and thus getting apache 2.4.7. I mostly use it for mod_passenger webapps and static sites. 14.04 includes nginx 1.4.6 but I'm sure the phusion guys will package 1.6 soon so I can easily upgrade to that. Is there any killer feature in nginx that I'm missing, staying with apache 2.4?

Generally speaking, nginx is lighter/faster/less flexible (though no less powerful). It really shines on low-RAM VPSes where the RAM eaten up by a big list of httpd processes really adds up.

For example, here are numbers from Apache+mod_passenger on my dev box:

	                         VSW    RSS
	root     20050  0.0  0.1 416524 21020 ?        Ss   Apr18   0:13 /usr/sbin/httpd
	root     13370  0.0  0.0 217068  1984 ?        Ssl  Apr21   0:00  \_ PassengerWatchdog
	root     13373  0.0  0.0 503104  2324 ?        Sl   Apr21   0:04  |   \_ PassengerHelperAgent
	nobody   13381  0.0  0.0 218208  3508 ?        Sl   Apr21   0:00  |   \_ PassengerLoggingAgent
	apache   13388  0.0  0.2 500060 33888 ?        S    Apr21   0:00  \_ /usr/sbin/httpd
	apache   13389  0.0  0.2 500060 33888 ?        S    Apr21   0:00  \_ /usr/sbin/httpd
	apache   13390  0.0  0.2 500060 33888 ?        S    Apr21   0:00  \_ /usr/sbin/httpd
	apache   13391  0.0  0.2 500060 34140 ?        S    Apr21   0:00  \_ /usr/sbin/httpd
	apache   13392  0.0  0.2 500132 33924 ?        S    Apr21   0:00  \_ /usr/sbin/httpd

And those same numbers on one of my production Linode instances, running nginx + passenger:

	                           VSW   RSS
	root     17824  0.0  0.0   7988   328 ?        Ss   Apr10   0:00 nginx: master process
	nobody   31676  0.0  0.5   8732  3248 ?        S    Apr23   0:08  \_ nginx: worker process
	nobody    9103  0.0  0.5   8684  3288 ?        S    Apr23   0:03  \_ nginx: worker process
	nobody    9106  0.0  0.5   8876  3416 ?        S    Apr23   0:04  \_ nginx: worker process
	nobody   22077  0.0  0.4   8400  3004 ?        S    01:23   0:02  \_ nginx: worker process

(yes, I know that ps auxf isn't the best measure of memory usage, but it ballparks to make the point)

Re: Nginx 1.6.0 stable released

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Apr 24, 2014, 2:21 PM UTC

pedrocr wrote: post #5

I'm currently running apache 2.2.22 on my Ubuntu 12.04 servers. It works fine. I'll be moving them to 14.04 and thus getting apache 2.4.7. I mostly use it for mod_passenger webapps and static sites. 14.04 includes nginx 1.4.6 but I'm sure the phusion guys will package 1.6 soon so I can easily upgrade to that. Is there any killer feature in nginx that I'm missing, staying with apache 2.4?

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Re: Nginx 1.6.0 stable released

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Post by pedrocr » Thu, Apr 24, 2014, 2:22 PM UTC

cheald wrote: post #6

pedrocr wrote: post #5

I'm currently running apache 2.2.22 on my Ubuntu 12.04 servers. It works fine. I'll be moving them to 14.04 and thus getting apache 2.4.7. I mostly use it for mod_passenger webapps and static sites. 14.04 includes nginx 1.4.6 but I'm sure the phusion guys will package 1.6 soon so I can easily upgrade to that. Is there any killer feature in nginx that I'm missing, staying with apache 2.4?

Generally speaking, nginx is lighter/faster/less flexible (though no less powerful). It really shines on low-RAM VPSes where the RAM eaten up by a big list of httpd processes really adds up. For example, here are numbers from Apache+mod_passenger on my dev box: VSW RSS root 20050 0.0 0.1 416524 21020 ? Ss Apr18 0:13 /usr/sbin/httpd root 13370 0.0 0.0 217068 1984 ? Ssl Apr21 0:00 \_ PassengerWatchdog root 13373 0.0 0.…

Linode just upgraded me to 2GB RAM for the same price, and apache doesn't seem to be taking all that much RAM. I guess the benefits aren't all that important for my setup. I may as well spend the time improving other things.

Re: Nginx 1.6.0 stable released

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Post by chiachun » Thu, Apr 24, 2014, 2:24 PM UTC

Supplement: http://nginx.org/en/CHANGES-1.6

Re: Nginx 1.6.0 stable released

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Post by neverminder » Thu, Apr 24, 2014, 2:28 PM UTC

cheald wrote: post #6

pedrocr wrote: post #5

I'm currently running apache 2.2.22 on my Ubuntu 12.04 servers. It works fine. I'll be moving them to 14.04 and thus getting apache 2.4.7. I mostly use it for mod_passenger webapps and static sites. 14.04 includes nginx 1.4.6 but I'm sure the phusion guys will package 1.6 soon so I can easily upgrade to that. Is there any killer feature in nginx that I'm missing, staying with apache 2.4?

Generally speaking, nginx is lighter/faster/less flexible (though no less powerful). It really shines on low-RAM VPSes where the RAM eaten up by a big list of httpd processes really adds up. For example, here are numbers from Apache+mod_passenger on my dev box: VSW RSS root 20050 0.0 0.1 416524 21020 ? Ss Apr18 0:13 /usr/sbin/httpd root 13370 0.0 0.0 217068 1984 ? Ssl Apr21 0:00 \_ PassengerWatchdog root 13373 0.0 0.…

Nginx is also non-blocking which is the main difference from Apache. I don't agree Nginx is less flexible, from my own experience it's quite the other way around - try configuring Apache as a reverse proxy, you'll see how "flexible" it really is.