Lighttpd

server.max-fds option¶

server.max-fds

As lighttpd is a single-threaded server, its main resource limit is the number of open file descriptors, which often defaults to 1024 or 4096 on many systems.

If you are running a high-traffic site you might want to increase this limit by setting server.max-fds = 16384.

Changing this setting requires one-time modifications to raise the system resource limits assignments for the lighttpd user account, or requires root permissions at lighttpd startup for lighttpd to modify the system resource limit for the lighttpd process.

Default: ulimit -n

Also See

• server.max-connections

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