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> What happens when all of those are occupied?

Backlog. That increases the latency till a new connection can be accepted. However, the number of pooled connections can be increased to a fairly large number at the expense of more memory consumption. This is something that isn't an issue with nginx by using it as a HTTPS proxy.



Was more a rhetorical question. ;)




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