Hello! On Wed, Nov 16, 2022 at 03:31:14PM +0000, Masseau Olivier via nginx wrote:
> Previous we could find this very important information on the > "nginx for Windows" page ( http://nginx.org/en/docs/windows.html > ) : > > Known issues > ... > A worker can handle no more than 1024 simultaneous connections. > ... > > Why has it been removed ? > I struggled a lot understanding why increasing > worker_connections above 1024 was not working on Windows. As you can see from the source code repository of the nginx.org site, the relevant item was removed along with the documentation of the poll event method being supported on Windows (introduced in nginx 1.15.9): http://hg.nginx.org/nginx.org/rev/4795c2ae5066 Added the "poll" method for Windows. With the poll event method, as long as it is supported by the Windows version you are using (Windows Vista or later), nginx will use the WSAPoll() function, which, in contrast to select(), does not impose a hard-coded limit on the number of connections. You'll have to use the "use poll;" in your configuration to instruct nginx to use the poll event method, see http://nginx.org/r/use for details. Note though that with poll there might be other issues, such as failure to report connect() errors till the timeout expires (see https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2012/10/10/wsapoll-is-broken/ for details; shouldn't be a major issue in case of nginx though, since errors while connecting to backend servers aren't expected to happen). Also note that Windows isn't really designed as an efficient server platform, and nginx is not really designed to work on Windows. Running nginx on Windows in production setups might not be a good idea. Hope this helps. -- Maxim Dounin http://mdounin.ru/ _______________________________________________ nginx mailing list -- nginx@nginx.org To unsubscribe send an email to nginx-le...@nginx.org
