#worker-connections

keepalive versus worker_connections: trade‑off for short‑lived connection latency in nginx

The goal is to lower request latency for short‑lived, bursty traffic in nginx without exceeding system file descriptor limits or causing excessive memory use. Increasing worker_connections lets each worker handle more simultaneous sockets, but raises memory pressure and may hit FD limits. Enabling keepalive reuses existing TCP connections, cutting handshake

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