# Load Balanced Servers Active Connections Increasing

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**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [May 1, 2010, 12:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/load-balanced-servers-active-connections-increasing/187890 "2010-05-01T00:15:23Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 1, 2010, 12:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/load-balanced-servers-active-connections-increasing/187890/1 "2010-05-01T00:15:23Z")

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We are using a hardware load balancer between two Nginx 0.8.4 servers  
streaming mp4 videos. The Stub Status plugin shows active connections  
continuously increasing and never going down. Is any one else having  
this problem and are there any patches or fixes to this?

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> **[Load Balanced Servers Active Connections Increasing](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,81223,81223#msg-81223)**
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> We are using a hardware load balancer between two Nginx 0.8.4 servers streaming mp4 videos. The Stub Status plugin shows active connections continuously increasing and never going down. Is any one else having this problem and are there any patches or...