$connections_waiting ever increasing

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Thu, Dec 01, 2016 at 11:44:44AM -0500, nemster wrote:

> hi all!
> i see ever increasing numbers for $connections_waiting in the status
> plugin.
> 
> nginx06% curl 'localhost/status'
> Active connections: 480810
> server accepts handled requests
>  53456157 53456157 92142205
> Reading: 5 Writing: 8435 Waiting: 471206
> nginx06% sudo netstat -alpn | grep "^tcp" | wc -l
> 28392
> 
> that looks fishy...
> 
> nginx version: nginx/1.11.5
> 
> any hints?

nginx -V, config?

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