# How can I configure rails server connection number?

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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [August 6, 2009, 5:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-can-i-configure-rails-server-connection-number/173275 "2009-08-06T05:13:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![youhaodeyi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/b9bd4f/32.png) [@youhaodeyi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/youhaodeyi)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2009, 5:13am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-can-i-configure-rails-server-connection-number/173275/1 "2009-08-06T05:13:34Z")

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How can I configure rails server connection number? This indicates how  
many clients can connect to a server at one time.

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**Author:** ![youhaodeyi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/b9bd4f/32.png) [@youhaodeyi](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/youhaodeyi)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2009, 7:06am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-can-i-configure-rails-server-connection-number/173275/2 "2009-08-06T07:06:01Z")

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Hi  
You can set pool in database.yml

Read this  
[http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2008/9/7/what-s-new-in-edge-rails-connection-pools](http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2008/9/7/what-s-new-in-edge-rails-connection-pools)

Sijo

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**Post date:** [August 6, 2009, 9:33am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/how-can-i-configure-rails-server-connection-number/173275/3 "2009-08-06T09:33:23Z")

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Sijo Kg wrote:

> Hi  
> You can set pool in database.yml
> 
> Read this  
> [http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2008/9/7/what-s-new-in-edge-rails-connection-pools](http://ryandaigle.com/articles/2008/9/7/what-s-new-in-edge-rails-connection-pools)
> 
> Sijo

I have set this value to 10. But if a user load a web page which cause a  
long time, other users will not load pages until this page finished  
loaded. How can I set the thread number for loading pages?
