# High reading and low writing

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/high-reading-and-low-writing/221545>\
**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [July 19, 2012, 3:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/high-reading-and-low-writing/221545 "2012-07-19T03:15:55Z")\
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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:** [July 19, 2012, 3:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/high-reading-and-low-writing/221545/1 "2012-07-19T03:15:55Z")

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To reduce waiting quota, keepalive\_timeout was set to 3.

While the status shows as below,

Active connections: 1850  
server accepts handled requests  
14387580 14387580 15330890  
Reading: 1312 Writing: 6 Waiting: 532

My question is, why nginx has so large reading/writing ratio?Thx!

Posted at Nginx Forum:

> **[high reading and low writing](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,228717,228717#msg-228717)**
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> To reduce waiting quota, keepalive\_timeout was set to 3. While the status shows as below, Active connections: 1850 server accepts handled requests 14387580 14387580 15330890 Reading: 1312 Writing: 6 Waiting: 532 My question is, why ng