SOLVED: Nginx - Underpowered system or bad config?

[Hannes]

Hi,

I just moved the Nginx config for Jellyfin (Among other things) from Nginx Proxy Manager on Unraid to pure nginx on my Raspberry Pi.

After that I get a lot of stuttering (every second or so).
htop reports that nginx uses 100% of the CPU, so I suspect that my Pi is just underpowered.

Before I move to a Linux VM on the Unraid server, I would just like to check that my config isn't using unnecessary resources.
Have I configured something wrong, or does a video stream just require more from the hardware?

It's a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B, so not exactly new...

My nginx.conf and the jellyfin specific config is here:
https://pastebin.com/6JaeeBfQ

Thank you!

[bitmap]

Looks fine to me. I would guess throughput is the issue. Supposedly a Pi 4B could handle pihole just fine and I saturated that thing nearly every day. I wouldn't recommend running networking stuff on a Pi, sadly.

[hmfaysal]

I don't know, since the release of nginx 1.29.1, I have seen weird stuttering issues as well. My one is a pretty decent machine with i5 12500 with 64gb ddr4 2666Mhz memory.

Need to investigate further.

[Hannes]

Thanks for your input!

I'll move Nginx to a VM. Will report back with the results.

[Eri Cka]

Why not stay with Nginx Proxy Manager in a Docker container ?

You may have misconfigured something

[Hannes]

Moved to a VM. One Xeon E3-1246, and it's utilized to about 10% - 15% with the exact same Nginx config.
So I'd say that confirms the hardware was under powered.

Why not stay with Nginx Proxy Manager in a Docker container ?

You may have misconfigured something

I find Nginx Proxy Manager to be more complicated than plain Nginx. Especially when what I want to do is something other than proxy_pass, like serving static files.

I also like being able to have my config as simple text files in a git repo and a bash script to deploy everything.