Windows 1024 Connections Limit

[B.R.]

Even though using nginx on Windows goes way over my head (even for
development) and/or seing WIndows as any kind of server, I read that
Windows Vista+ support the poll (well, actually WSAPoll
<https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms741669.aspx>)
system call.
Since XP may now reasonably be called something of the past, would not it
be nice to go for it? No epoll, though.
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*B. R.*

On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 7:42 PM, Igal @ Lucee.org <igal at lucee.org> wrote:

> Maxim,
>
> On 4/12/2017 5:57 AM, Maxim Dounin wrote:
>
>>
>> On Windows, nginx uses select() system call to handle connection
>> events.  This syscall implies fixed-size bitmasks to pass file
>> descriptors from userland to kernel and back.  Size of these
>> bitmasks can be only specified during compilation, and 1024 is the
>> value nginx uses for official binaries to balance between maximum
>> number of connections and unneeded overhead implied by large
>> bitmasks.
>>
>> It is possible to recompile nginx with different value if you need
>> to, see http://nginx.org/en/docs/howto_build_on_win32.html.
>>
>> On ther other hand, if you are using nginx in production I would
>> recommend to consider using Unix variants instead.
>>
>
> Thank you very much for the explanation and recommendation,
>
>
> Igal
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