Questions regarding worker_connections

[Alder Netw]

Thanks Maxim for the info. So worker  connections in waiting state may not
be
ready to be reused. Is there any maximum waiting time? We seem to run into
a condition that those connections are permanently stuck in waiting state.

Also, what would be the ball-park number of worker_connections  should be
set
if we want to support expected number of active connections, say 150?
Thanks,

On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 4:56 AM, Maxim Dounin <mdounin at mdounin.ru> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 02:54:31PM -0700, Alder Netw wrote:
>
> > Got a question regarding the worker_connections configuration. Is a
> > worker_connection
> > essentially
> > a tcp socket connection or http session?
>
> The worker_connections directive configures maximum number of
> connections a worker process can open.  That is, basically this
> means "TCP sockets".
>
> See http://nginx.org/r/worker_connections for additional details.
>
> > Via the http_stub_status_module, I can see there are
> > connections in waiting state, but any new request
> > will result in a "worker connections are not enough"
> > alert in error.log. Why it cannot accept new connections
> > if there are existing connections in waiting state? Is that
> > a bug? I am using nginx 1.6.2.
>
> Connections in the waiting state are real established connections.
> While in some cases nginx can close and re-use these connections
> quickly enough to don't trigger the "worker connections are not
> enough" alert, this is not something guaranteed.
>
> In general, you should tune worker_connections so it's higher than
> expected number of active connections - that is, all connections
> including waiting ones.
>
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> Maxim Dounin
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