Tuning nginx worker_process to obtain 100k hits per min

Question

We have a server that is serving one html file.

Right now the server has 2 CPUs and 2GB of ram. From blitz.io, we are getting about 12k connections per minute and an

Answer 1

Config file:

worker_processes  4;  # 2 * Number of CPUs

events {
    worker_connections  19000;  # It's the key to high performance - have a lot of connections available
}

worker_rlimit_nofile    20000;  # Each connection needs a filehandle (or 2 if you are proxying)


# Total amount of users you can serve = worker_processes * worker_connections

more info: Optimizing nginx for high traffic loads