If your server is configured for a low number of concurrent connections, it can easily seem swamped if a small number of people are concurrently downloading a large file slowly. All that's happening is that it's not accept()ing new connections until existing ones finish.
If your server is configured for a low number of concurrent connections, it can easily seem swamped if a small number of people are concurrently downloading a large file slowly. All that's happening is that it's not accept()ing new connections until existing ones finish.