My nginx.conf (base nginx config)

gistfile1.nginxconf

# Base nginx config
# See: http://habrahabr.ru/post/56497/ (russian)

user www-data;
worker_processes 2; # recommended equals to number of cores

pid /var/run/nginx.pid;

# Decrease calls of gettimeofday()
timer_resolution 100ms;

worker_priority -5; # from -20 to 20 (the lower the higher priority)
worker_rlimit_nofile 8192;

events {
	worker_connections 8192; # increase if you have lots of clients
	accept_mutex on; # recommended "off" if nginx worker_processes == 1
	# multi_accept on;

	use epoll; # enable for Linux 2.6+
	# use kqueue; # enable for FreeBSD, OSX
}

http {

	##
	# Basic Settings
	##

	sendfile on;
	tcp_nopush on; # off may be better for *some* Comet/long-poll stuff
	tcp_nodelay off; # on may be better for some Comet/long-poll stuff
	keepalive_timeout 65;
	types_hash_max_size 2048;
	server_tokens off;

	charset utf-8;

	# server_names_hash_bucket_size 64;
	# server_name_in_redirect off;

	# nginx will find this file in the config directory set at nginx build time
	include /etc/nginx/mime.types;
	# fallback in case we can't determine a type
	default_type application/octet-stream;

	##
	# Logging Settings
	##

	log_format main '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] $request '
	'"$status" $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
	'"$http_user_agent" "$http_x_forwarded_for" $upstream_response_time';

	access_log /var/log/nginx/access.log main;
	error_log /var/log/nginx/error.log;

	##
	# Gzip Settings
	##

	# we haven't checked to see if Rack::Deflate on the app server is
	# faster or not than doing compression via nginx.  It's easier
	# to configure it all in one place here for static files and also
	# to disable gzip for clients who don't get gzip/deflate right.
	# There are other other gzip settings that may be needed used to deal with
	# bad clients out there, see http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpGzipModule
	gzip on;
	gzip_min_length 1400; #MTU
	gzip_buffers 64 8k;
	gzip_comp_level 3;
	gzip_http_version 1.1;
	gzip_proxied any;
	# gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6]\.(?!.*SV1)";
	gzip_disable "msie6";
	gzip_types
		text/plain
		text/html
		text/xml
		text/css
		text/comma-separated-values
		text/javascript
		application/json
		application/x-javascript
		application/atom+xml;

	##
	# Virtual Host Configs
	##

	include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;
	include /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/*;
}