Solaris Nginx Performance Tuning

This is kind of old by now, but might still work.

This is a huge performance win for Solaris. Nginx can avoid the 0(n) file descriptor problem with event ports support.
Note: On solaris 12 this might not be an issue

To enable event ports add this to your nginx.conf

events {
    use eventport;
}

Below is an example performance tuning configuration.

worker_processes  8;
worker_rlimit_nofile 10240;
events {
    worker_connections  8024;
    use eventport;
}
http {
    keepalive_timeout  20;
    server_names_hash_bucket_size 64;
    sendfile        on;
    tcp_nopush     on;
    client_max_body_size 150m;


    gzip  on;
    gzip_comp_level  5;
    gzip_vary       on;
    gzip_proxied    any;
    gzip_types      text text/plain text/css text/xml application/xml text/javascript text/html application/x-javascript;
}

Additional Performance tuning references
https://www.linode.com/docs/websites/nginx/configure-nginx-for-optimized-performance