+---------- On Sep 29, Jim Wilcoxson said: > I don't quite understand the value of accepting connections even > though there is no thread available to service the request (this > occurs if maxconnections > maxthreads).
Before 3.4, nsd would return a 503 server busy if it had maxconnections already. In 3.4, it just stops calling accept. So it was more useful before 3.4. Also, the kernel will only buffer a limited number of the number of un-accept()ed connections. If you want to buffer more than that many, you need to set maxconnections larger. > "maxdropped" is unusual. maxdropped was perhaps also more useful before 3.4. If your server fell far behind, then it was probably in some hosed state and needed to be restarted.
