[KAFKA-7730] Limit total number of active connections in the broker

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.1.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.3.0
• Component/s: network
• Assignee: Rajini Sivaram
• Reporter: Rajini Sivaram
• Reviewer: Gwen Shapira
• Created: 13/Dec/18 12:01
• Updated: 25/May/19 22:32
• Resolved: 14/Mar/19 23:21

Description

Add a new listener config `max.connections` to limit the maximum number of active connections on each listener. See https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-402%3A+Improve+fairness+in+SocketServer+processors for details.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #6034
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