> What happens when all of those are occupied? Backlog. That increases the latency till a new connection can be accepted. However, the number of pooled connect

> What happens when all of those are occupied? Backlog. That increases the latency till a new connection can be accepted. However, the number of pooled connections can be increased to a fairly large number at the expense of more memory consumption. This is something that isn't an issue with nginx by using it as a HTTPS proxy.