Connection limit

Peter Palfrader peter at palfrader.org
Fri Aug 19 13:20:49 UTC 2005


On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Eugene Y. Vasserman wrote:

> > MaxConn NUM
> >               Maximum number of simultaneous sockets allowed.  You
> > 	      probably don't need to adjust this. (Default:
> > 	      1024)
> Thank you very much. I'm trying opther things to get my router to stop
> crashing - will notify of progress.

Please don't set this.  If you can't handle at least 1000 connections
then chances are something is broken on your end.

Limiting the number of connections just makes tor clients sad that try
to use your server and then fail.  It should really not be lowered at
all.

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