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Acceptor will stop accepting new connections when the broker's max.connections limit is reached. New connections will be accepted as soon as a connection is closed by any of the Processors. Any time spent waiting for connections to close will also be included in the new AcceptorIdlePercent metric. The existing max.connections.per.ip config will also be applied without any changes. Connections dropped due to hitting the per-ip limit will not appear in the AcceptorIdlePercent metric since these connections are accepted and then dropped.

Compatibility, Deprecation, and Migration Plan

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