Hello Lukas, Thanks for your answer. Our backend is a webserver providing streaming services.
>From my understanding, the user won't be directed to another backend. It will wait till a connection is freed : "Limits the sockets to this number of concurrent connections. Extraneous connections will remain in the system's backlog until a connection is released. " Regards, Smana 2013/5/6 Lukas Tribus <[email protected]> > Hi Smana, > > > > i was wondering what would happen if a lot of users request the same > > file (url). > > Could it lead to an overload of one of our backends ? > > We don't know your backend, so we can't tell. > > > > > Is it possible to fix limits and switch to another backend if they're > > exceeded? > > Doesn't the maxconn configuration already do what you are asking? > > > > > Regards, > > Lukas
