On Tuesday 04 April 2017 17:22:58 Kamil Gorlo wrote: > Hi, > > is there a way to limit total number of open connections per listening port > in Nginx? I know that there is limit_conn module but as far as I understand > it only works on "request" layer, which means connections are counted only > when request headers have been already read. > > I have problem when number of SSL connections to my server is very high > (CPU is 100% and server becomes unresponsive), and I would like to "cut" > new connections after some defined threshold is exceeded. It would possibly > save some CPU cycles needed to handle SSL handshake, etc. > > Is it possible? >
You should use system firewall. Most of *nix systems have one out of the box. wbr, Valentin V. Bartenev _______________________________________________ nginx mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx
