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this was a reason specific to our stupidity. why on earth would someone keep connections open for 2.5 hours? how he misses this setting?

my point in this is, if you have something that balance connections between servers, check if it kills them or not.

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Perhaps it was just some mismatch between the expectation (pooled, long-running connections) and reality. (many, many short-lived connections)

I think another takeaway from this is any time you need to adjust the ulimit, take a step back and ask "Does this make sense? Is my use case exceptional enough that it won't perform within the default limits set by my OS?"

Were you doing any connection pooling with Mongo? I'm curious what driver you were using, etc.

He gives the impression in the article that it was PHP.

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