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On a local development machine, I have a nginx reverse proxy like so:

server {
  listen 80;
  server_name myvirtualhost1.local;
  location / {
    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;
}

server {
  listen 80;
  server_name myvirtualhost2.local;
  location / {
    proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:9090;
}

Yet if I debug my application, the response may be delayed for an infinite amount of time, yet after 30 seconds I get:

504 Gateway Time-out

as a response.

How can I disable the timeout and have my reverse proxy wait forever for a response? And I like the setting to be global, so that I do not have to set it for each proxy.

At the moment we're trying to decide whether to move our datacenter from the west coast to the east coast.

However, I am seeing some disturbing latency numbers from my west coast location to the east coast. Here's a sample result, retrieving a small .png logo file in Google Chrome and using the dev tools to see how long the request takes:

• West coast to east coast:
  215 ms latency, 46 ms transfer time, 261 ms total
• West coast to west coast:
  114 ms latency, 41 ms transfer time, 155 ms total

It makes sense that Corvallis, OR is geographically closer to my location in Berkeley, CA so I expect the connection to be a bit faster.. but I'm seeing an increase in latency of +100ms when I perform the same test to the NYC server. That seems .. excessive to me. Particularly since the time spent transferring the actual data only increased 10%, yet the latency increased 100%!

That feels... wrong... to me.

I found a few links here that were helpful (through Google no less!) ...

• Does routing distance affect performance significantly?
• How does geography affect network latency?
• Latency in Internet connections from Europe to USA

... but nothing authoritative.

So, is this normal? It doesn't feel normal. What is the "typical" latency I should expect when moving network packets from the east coast <--> west coast of the USA?

In a PowerShell script, how can I check if I'm running with administrator privileges?

I would like to open a discussion that would accumulate your Linux command line (CLI) best practices and tips.

I've searched for such a discussion to share the below comment but haven't found one, hence this post.

I hope we all could learn from this.

You are welcome to share your Bash tips, grep, sed, AWK, /proc and all other related Linux/Unix system administration, shell programming best practices for the benefit of us all.

I've been picking up Linux (Fedora 10, then 11) over the past few months (and enjoying it immensely-- it's like discovering computers all over again, so many things to learn).

I've added my user to the last line of the /etc/sudoers file as shown below, so that I don't get asked for my password when I execute the sudo command:

MyUserName ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL

Now every time I execute a command using sudo, it pauses a noticeable amount of time before actually performing the task (~10 seconds). Why might this be and how might I fix this? I'm running Sudo version 1.7.1 on Fedora 11 x86 64.