active connections from status

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Sat, 24 Nov 2007, rkmr.em at gmail.com wrote:

> this is from my /nginx_status page:
>
> Active connections: 82
> server accepts handled requests
> 4489 4489 5657
> Reading: 0 Writing: 2 Waiting: 80
>
>
> does this mean 82 connections are waiting to be served? this is very high
> right?

"Waiting" also counts keep-alive connections (in fact, it counts all 
established connections except reading/writing ones). So it's not very 
high.

Maxim Dounin