Hey everyone, I’m hitting a wall with an intermittent connection-dropping issue on our production Discourse app node and need some advice from sysadmins or kernel networking experts. During traffic spikes, Nginx starts returning 502 Bad Gateway and dropped connections cascade across upstream servi…

Grootmade@app-node - 11: Resource temporarily unavailable

merefield (Robert) August 24, 2026, 6:41am 2

Modern Discourse does not run Puma. What version of discourse are you running? Is it fair to say this is a non-standard install?

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