<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Shahan Khan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:contact@shahan.me">contact@shahan.me</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Maybe a nginx feature that should be added is when the temporary cache<br>
directory runs out of space, nginx disable the proxy cache buffer and also<br>
disables gzip encoding.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I personally disagree, it's quite normal (if not expected!) for software to stop working upon disk fill-up, and trying to recover smartly from this (and then maybe a few million other issues) would make it more complex, less mantainable and slower.</div>
<div><br></div><div>+1 for returning a 500 instead, and logging the error as critical if it doesn't already.</div><div><br></div><div>Bye </div></div>