How to check the number of open connections in node.js?

Question

I have a machine running node.js (v0.1.32) with a tcp server (tcp.createServer) and a http server (http.createServer). The http server is hit by long polling requests (lasting 50 sec each) from a comet based application on port 80. And there are tcp socket connections on port 8080 from an iphone application for the same purpose.

It was found that the server was not able to handle more connections (especially the tcp connections while the http connections appeared fine!!??) for a while and was normal only after a restart.

For load testing the connections I have created a tcp server and spawned 2000 requests and figured that the connections starting to fail after the max file descriptor limit on machine is reached (default 1024). Which is a really very small number.

So, a novice question here: How do I scale my application to handle more number of connections on node.js and how I handle this issue.

Is there a way to find out how many active connections are there at the moment?

Thanks Sharief

Answer 1

You can get the count of connections by using below:

var server = http.createServer(app);     
server.getConnections(function(error, count) {
    console.log(count); 
});

Using this you keep check on connection and when it cross a threshold then close the previous connections. Hope it helps.