# Does log phase counts as active connection? **URL:** \ **Category:** NGINX\ **Created:** [November 19, 2012, 10:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-log-phase-counts-as-active-connection/224611 "2012-11-19T10:37:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [November 19, 2012, 10:37am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/does-log-phase-counts-as-active-connection/224611/1 "2012-11-19T10:37:47Z")
Hi, Assume my server datastorage is not responding where I am logging access.log/error.log and some analytics logs using lua. If I am running nginx as single worker and I have set a limit of 1024 max connections in nginx and 1000 connections are waiting in log phase. How many connection nginx can accept at that time? 24 more or 1024 more? Posted at Nginx Forum: > **[Does log phase counts as active connection?](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,232973,232973#msg-232973)** > > Hi, Assume my server datastorage is not responding where I am logging access.log/error.log and some analytics logs using lua. If I am running nginx as single worker and I have set a limit of 1024 max connections in nginx and 1000 connections are...