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Reputation: 2146

Number Of Connections Limit For A Web Server

I was wondering how can I find the "number of connections limit" for a web server.
Most of the cases I encountered it is limited to 6 connections (Meaning I can have 6 connections to this webserver working at the same time).
Is there any request I can send over HTTP?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5036

Answers (2)

phsym
phsym

Reputation: 1384

Could you be more precise ? What kind of server ? Any ? For which OS ?

If it's an Apache http server, you should have a look in the settings file (should be /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf under Linux). Search for MaxClients option. For example, I use a small apache server at home which can process 300 simultaneous requests (connections).

EDIT : I think you won't be able to get the server specifications. You should try to overload it in order to guess its limits.

Upvotes: 1

Szocske
Szocske

Reputation: 7661

There's nothing like this in the HTTP standard, it aims to isolate HTTP requests from each other as much as possible. There might be a server-specific way to query this.

Depending on the architecture of your server, there could be a far greater number of TCP connections accepted than worker threads generating the HTTP responses, so you need to ask yourself what exactly you are interested in, and then just measure it with jmeter.

Upvotes: 0

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