Performance Talk on TYPO3 and nginx and some techniques to have your TYPO3 bleeding fast (e.g. 10.000+ req/sec on appropriate Hardware)
Here are the Configs we're using for nginx at wmdb Systems GmbH
In addition to this you can use the patch for nc_staticfilecache to be able to mount typo3temp/nc_staticfilecache to tmpfs (ramdisk). Make sure you update the try_files within conf.d/typo3.global.conf to point to the new directory.
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