# Connection refused

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/connection-refused/222030>\
**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [August 9, 2012, 2:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/connection-refused/222030 "2012-08-09T14:54:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![aris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@aris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aris)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 2:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/connection-refused/222030/1 "2012-08-09T14:54:47Z")

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Hello everybody,

I have recently some problem with my nginx server and i need some help.

My platform is linux 2.6.32 - SLESS 11 SP1 (x86\_64) (64Go RAM & 16  
Cpu With Fusion IO Card )

Nginx server has two instances of “server”, a frontend (cache) and a  
backend (fetches static files on another external server). On the  
frontend server there are error logs like this:

2012/08/09 14:13:19 [error] 23794#0: \*62532 connect() failed (111:  
Connection refused) while connecting to upstream, client: 127.0.0.1,  
server: localhost, request: “GET 444d58dfa1be-596d.jpg HTTP/1.0”,  
upstream: “[http://10.13.10.100:80/444d58dfa1be-596d.jpg](http://10.13.10.100:80/444d58dfa1be-596d.jpg)”, host:  
“[xxxx.com](http://xxxx.com)”, referrer: “[http://xxxxxxxx/file.htm](http://xxxxxxxx/file.htm)”

I have 1700 requests per minute (including 150 requests with “111:  
Connection refused”)

Anybody has idea about avoiding this or fixing it ?

Thx

Posted at Nginx Forum:

> **[Connection refused](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,229504,229504#msg-229504)**
>
> Hello everybody, I have recently some problem with my nginx server and i need some help. My platform is linux 2.6.32 - SLESS 11 SP1 (x86\_64) (64Go RAM & 16 Cpu With Fusion IO Card ) Nginx server has two instances of "server", a frontend...