>From substack's rant at https://github.com/substack/hyperquest it would seem the max of 5 connections is rather arbitrary, so raising it shouldn't have any dire consequences.
On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Jed Wood <[email protected]> wrote: > When is it wise to raise the default > Agent.maxConnections<http://nodejs.org/api/net.html#net_server_maxconnections>limit > from 5? What are the risks/tradeoffs? > > The discussions/opinions I found on this are pretty old, and even within > those answers I couldn't find a clear answer. > > I have a simple server that is largely a proxy and aggregator for an > external API. Each call to my app makes several parallel calls to the > external API. My server is otherwise doing nothing else to tax the CPU or > raise memory, so I'm inclined to bump up the limit so as not to start > blocking once I have just 3 or 4 connections. What can potential problems > can I expect? > > Thanks, > -Jed > > -- > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
