Increase the maximum socket connection backlog for high-traffic servers
The default connection queue (128) can cause connection drops under heavy load. This raises it to 65535. Also set net.ipv4.tcp_max_syn_backlog=65535 and the corresponding app-level setting (e.g., Nginx worker_connections).
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