From 9bc71b00106a3ca10f3ae20aecbfc4e67a031f2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Romain <rtribotte@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 09:10:04 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add a note about how to disable connection reuse with
 backends

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 docs/content/routing/overview.md | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/content/routing/overview.md b/docs/content/routing/overview.md
index b49c9748b..96adbc649 100644
--- a/docs/content/routing/overview.md
+++ b/docs/content/routing/overview.md
@@ -325,6 +325,11 @@ serversTransport:
 --serversTransport.maxIdleConnsPerHost=7
 ```
 
+!!! info "Disable connection reuse"
+    
+    The default value of `maxIdleConnsPerHost` is 2, and the zero value is the fallback to the default (2).
+    If you want to disable connection reuse, set `maxIdleConnsPerHost` to -1.
+
 ### `forwardingTimeouts`
 
 `forwardingTimeouts` is about a number of timeouts relevant to when forwarding requests to the backend servers.