Yes I found a solution in my answer here: https://serverfault.com/questions/1002021/nginx-fails-on-high-load-with-debian10-and-not-with-debian9
accept_mutex changed from on to off in the default value. Setting it back to "on" and Nginx is happily running with 10k requests per second again. I guess it is a combination of multi_accept and accept_mutex which caused my troubles. regards Janning Posted at Nginx Forum: https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,286893,292394#msg-292394 _______________________________________________ nginx mailing list nginx@nginx.org http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx