Mastering Nginx

Chapter 2

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Directive Explanation

tcp_nodelay Enables or disables the TCP_NODELAY

option for keep-alive connections.

tcp_nopush Relevant only when sendfile is used. It

enables NGINX to attempt to send response

headers in one packet, as well as sending a

file in full packets.

Sample configuration

The following is an example of an HTTP configuration section:

http {

include /opt/local/etc/nginx/mime.types;

default_type application/octet-stream;

sendfile on;

tcp_nopush on;

tcp_nodelay on;

keepalive_timeout 65;

server_names_hash_max_size 1024;

}

This context block would go after any global configuration directives in the
nginx.conf file.