I read something interesting today: <https://blog.martinfjordvald.com/2011/04/optimizing-nginx-for-high-traffic-loads/>
"Keep alive is a HTTP feature which allows user agents to keep the connection to your server open for a number of requests or until the specified time out is reached. This won’t actually change the performance of our nginx server very much as it handles idle connections very well. The author of nginx claims that 10,000 idle connections will use only 2.5 MB of memory, and from what I’ve seen this seems to be correct."" So why is it that people on the web (and in IRC) still recommend setting `keepalive_timeout` to a short period (< 30 seconds) when Nginx can handle idle keep-alive connections like a champ (using very little resources) while serving active ones? Is that bad advise? I get this advise so often that I believe there must be something that I am missing. What's it? _______________________________________________ nginx mailing list nginx@nginx.org http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx