max_children

max_children

Maximum amount of children to fork (or in other words, concurrent searches to run in parallel). Optional, default is 0 (unlimited).

Useful to control server load. There will be no more than this much concurrent searches running, at all times. When the limit is reached, additional incoming clients are dismissed with temporarily failure (SEARCHD_RETRY) status code and a message stating that the server is maxed out.

Example:

max_children = 10
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