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by xentronium 5061 days ago
> total number of clients = total number of workers, since each client permanently ties up a connection forever

Totally up to your application server. Actual formula is number of clients = total number of threads. It is up to app server to handle parallel requests.

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> Actual formula is number of clients = total number of threads.

That's what I said/meant by "worker", whether it's a thread or process does not matter, it pretty much has to be an OS-level concurrency primitive.