Hello! On Thu, Feb 02, 2023 at 01:03:13PM +0530, Vishwas Bm wrote:
> Can this keepalive_time be made infinite ? > So that connection is not broken after default 1hr There is no specific infinite value, though you can use a large enough keepalive_time instead. Something like "keepalive_time 10d;" should be a good replacement for "infinite". Note though that this might not be a good idea for the reasons outlined in the previous response. [...] > > The "keepalive_time" is a directive to limit total lifetime of the > > connection, making it possible to free any resources associated > > with the connection, notably allocated memory. Further, in some > > setups it might be important to periodically redo connection > > authentication, notably re-validate peer certificates. > > > > The "keepalive_time" directive is mostly equivalent to > > keepalive_requests, which is documented as follows: > > > > : Closing connections periodically is necessary to free > > : per-connection memory allocations. Therefore, using too high > > : maximum number of requests could result in excessive memory usage > > : and not recommended. > > > > Note though that keepalive_time is 1 hour by default, and reopening > > connections once per hour is not expected to have any performance > > impact. Rather, it is expected to be a hard limit on the total > > connection lifetime on connections which are mostly idle and > > therefore do not reach the "keepalive_requests" limit in a > > reasonable time. -- Maxim Dounin http://mdounin.ru/ _______________________________________________ nginx mailing list nginx@nginx.org https://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx
