Theoretical connections/second limit using Varnish

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <49F9BF57.4020909 at loman.net>, Nick Loman writes:

>Precisely, we only have perhaps 50 PHP children serving requests, so if 
>these are kept open to serve idle keep-alive connections, that severely 
>limits the numbers of dynamic page requests we can serve.

The difference between letting them say open 10msec and 0msec is very
significant when it comes to performance.

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