On Fri, 16 Sep 2011, Yamin Zhou wrote:

> this means that we have no way to limit how many sockets libcurl opens and
> tries to connect?

I don't understand what made you draw that conclusion. If you don't add more
handles, it won't use more connections.

> we have a problem here that libcurl tries to do 1000 connections per second
> when server is down, and this causes a big burden to the gateway of our
> system.

So stop adding new handles at that pace if that's a problem for you!

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