The balancer seems to have lots of connections left open. Why is this?

The Load Balancer tries to maintain a pool of idle connections to back-end web servers in order to re-use them for future requests. This is done to eliminate connection startup times. The balancer (by default) will try to convert incoming requests into 'keepalive' connections, in order to improve the use of these pooled connections. The balancer will also try to maintain persistent connections to clients, also for performance reasons.

Content Manager [Administrator] 12 August 2005