It's a bug in the documentation. The value was originally 10000, but was changed to 30000 in commit 879bedceb without updating the explanatory text.
On Fri, Nov 23, 2018 at 1:19 PM Dk Jack <dnj0...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to understand the config.net.connections_throttle configuration > shown below. The documentation says roughly 10% of the connections are > reserved for origin server connections. If the default was setting is > 30,000, how does it arrive at the 9000 number for client connections > (assuming client-side connections here means connections from clients i.e > not connections to origin), should it not be 27k? If I set the > configuration to 0, is the number of origin server connections still > limited to 10%? Thanks for your help. > > Dk. > > proxy.config.net.connections_throttle > < > https://docs.trafficserver.apache.org/en/latest/admin-guide/files/records.config.en.html#proxy-config-net-connections-throttle > > > Scope: CONFIG > Type: INT > Default: 30000 > > The total number of client and origin server connections that the server > can handle simultaneously. This is in fact the max number of file > descriptors that the *traffic_server* process can have open at any given > time. Roughly 10% of these connections are reserved for origin server > connections, i.e. from the default, only ~9,000 client connections can be > handled. This should be tuned according to your memory size, and expected > work load. If this is set to 0, the throttling logic is disabled. > -- *Beware the fisherman who's casting out his line in to a dried up riverbed.* *Oh don't try to tell him 'cause he won't believe. Throw some bread to the ducks instead.* *It's easier that way. *- Genesis : Duke : VI 25-28
