Take the 2-minute tour ×  I have read that I can do this to make
a smaller footprint Nginx when used as static content
cache/reverse proxy:   What other options are safe to disable?
SSI, FastCGI? Others? The only requirements for the reverse
proxy is to be able to do https and gzip compression. Will
disabling all the module really help with footprint and/or
performance?  share|improve this question add comment  1 Answer
up vote 2 down vote accepted  Nginx is pretty fast by default,
smaller footprint will only help if you are really trying to
work with a memory starved system like embedded systems or
something. Disabling the mail modules can help a little but I
would not advise to disable the http related stuff (even if you
don't think you won't need it, you may end needing it someday).
Binary size really doesn't has anything to do with performance,
since stuff is all addressed by memory address on RAM (it's not
like the kernel will take more time to run a function because it
is "further" from the "binary be