If I limit my nginx worker processes to 1 and allow for 500 connections, what happens if I exceed this limit? Does the server return a 503 Service Unavailable?
Basically, I'm trying to secure my system against DoS and do not expect more than 500 simultaneous connections per second.
Best Answer
How many cores your server has ? If you have two cores, i suggest you can set 2 workers and 250 conn. max.
max_clients = worker_processes * worker_connections
And Yes, the 501 connection will receive an error. But be carefull, a browser opens 2 connections by default.
EDIT: One more thing, you can set a max connection limit by IP (10 here) with
in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf