Questions about stub status numbers

Reinis Rozitis r at roze.lv
Thu Oct 27 21:02:19 UTC 2011


> Is the fact that we have 2K+ processes waiting a problem, meaning, on a 
> high traffic, optimized server, should the number of waiting connections 
> be much less?
> Let me ask different, is having 2K+ connections waiting considered a 
> problem?  Should that number ideally be as close to "0" as possible?

No and no. In fact on high traffic server there could be even more.
Waiting are just keepalive connections. It is also mentioned in 
documentation: http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpStubStatusModule#stub_status

rr 



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