I would suggest 1024 being conservative.
Reason, most linux boxes by default has open file limit (soft) 1024.

Cheers,
Ruwan

On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 5:48 AM, Nuwan Dias <[email protected]> wrote:

> +1. Do we have an idea of a sensible default?
>
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 3:11 PM, Isuru Udana <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> In the Passthrough HTTP transport[1] there is a configuration parameter
>> called *'max_open_connections'* to control the maximum number of
>> connections getting established with the client.
>>
>> Currently we are shipping the product without specifying a default value
>> for that, that means we are allowing any number of connections.
>> Allowing limitless connection establishment with the client may lead to a
>> catastrophic incident if it gets a sudden burst of requests.
>>
>> So shall we ship the product with a sensible default value ?
>> We need to decide on a suitable default value and we need to document the
>> importance of configuring a proper value for this.
>>
>> [1] https://docs.wso2.com/display/ESB490/HTTP+PassThrough+Transport
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> --
>> *Isuru Udana*
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>> WSO2 Inc.; http://wso2.com
>> email: [email protected] cell: +94 77 3791887
>> blog: http://mytecheye.blogspot.com/
>>
>
>
>
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