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gh-111872: Document the max_children attribute for `socketserver.ForkingMixIn` (#118134)
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@@ -126,6 +126,12 @@ server is the address family.
waits until all non-daemon threads complete, except if
:attr:`block_on_close` attribute is ``False``.
+ .. attribute:: max_children
+
+ Specify how many child processes will exist to handle requests at a time
+ for :class:`ForkingMixIn`. If the limit is reached,
+ new requests will wait until one child process has finished.
+
.. attribute:: daemon_threads
For :class:`ThreadingMixIn` use daemonic threads by setting