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I want to use asynchronous IO on nginx on FreeBSD. I see lots of documentation on how to configure it or how to compile nginx with it.

However, I already have nginx installed so I need to re-compile nginx with aio enabled. The recompile part is what I don't know how to do.

I'm using the nginx (v0.7.67) port provided with FreeBSD 8.

Can anybody help me?

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  • What version of nginx do you use? – Aleksandr Makhov Feb 8 '13 at 8:58
  • The version of nginx I am using is 0.7.67 – David Feb 12 '13 at 4:03
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First, you need to add AIO support to your FreeBSD. You can use two ways for do this. 1) Add "options VFS_AIO" and rebuild kernel. 2) Loaded AIO dynamically via loadable kernel module: kldload aio

Add this lines to config after that:

location /video/ {
    sendfile       off;
    aio            on;
    output_buffers 1 64k;
}

You can use sendfile for AIO:

location /video/ {
    sendfile       on;
    tcp_nopush     on;
    aio            sendfile;
}

Both variants will work.

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    You can load AIO dynamically on boot by adding aio_load="YES" to /boot/loader.conf, easier than recompiling. You may also need to rebuild the nginx port with the "Enable file aio" option checked. – USD Matt Feb 8 '13 at 9:14
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    I thought AIO was enabled on FreeBSD 8 by default. I guess I was wrong. How can I check if AIO is enabled already or not on the kernel? – David Feb 12 '13 at 4:06
  • I do need to rebuild the nginx port with the "Enable file aio" option checked. How do I do this? (This is my original question) – David Feb 12 '13 at 4:07
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The easiest way to enable nginx file aio support on FreeBSD is to install nginx via the ports tree and just select the FILE_AIO option in the dialog.

portsnap fetch extract
cd /usr/ports/www/nginx
make install clean

But if you want to compile it yourself, download the source, extract it and then:

./configure --with-file-aio
make install

(You need to run both portsnap and make install as root!)

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