Windows 1024 Connections Limit

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 09:54:34AM +0200, B.R. via nginx wrote:

> 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.

I've looked into WSAPoll() support a while ago.  Unfortunately, XP 
is still widely used in real life, over 5% worldwide:

http://gs.statcounter.com/os-version-market-share/windows/desktop/worldwide

This is likely to become an option in the not-so-distant future though.

-- 
Maxim Dounin
http://nginx.org/