alphagov/router — comment on commit f30472930b6d0f2d75513ac25bf1818bd7634e9f
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By mwall:

The default jetty config is for 1000 threads, I think, although I'd imagine that we'd run out of RAM far before then.

It is possible, but the Varnish in front of the router should deal with the brunt of the traffic. We might have to be a little careful about restarting varnish / completely emptying the cahe though.

On 6 Dec 2011, at 15:44, Craig R Webster wrote:

> Do we know how many connections the router can happily hold open? Is it possible that we could somehow hurt the router by watching for these slow requests and then hammering that URL to build up a lot of connections?
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