--- a/net/server.lua	Fri Jan 22 01:58:39 2016 +0100
+++ b/net/server.lua	Fri Jan 22 01:59:25 2016 +0100
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
 		local settings = config_get("*", "network_settings") or {};
 		if use_luaevent then
 			local event_settings = {
-				ACCEPT_DELAY = settings.event_accept_retry_interval;
+				ACCEPT_DELAY = settings.accept_retry_interval;
 				ACCEPT_QUEUE = settings.tcp_backlog;
 				CLEAR_DELAY = settings.event_clear_interval;
 				CONNECT_TIMEOUT = settings.connect_timeout;

--- a/net/server_select.lua	Fri Jan 22 01:58:39 2016 +0100
+++ b/net/server_select.lua	Fri Jan 22 01:59:25 2016 +0100
@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@
 local _selecttimeout
 local _sleeptime
 local _tcpbacklog
+local _accepretry
 
 local _starttime
 local _currenttime
@@ -143,6 +144,7 @@
 _selecttimeout = 1 -- timeout of socket.select
 _sleeptime = 0 -- time to wait at the end of every loop
 _tcpbacklog = 128 -- some kind of hint to the OS
+_accepretry = 10 -- seconds to wait until the next attempt of a full server to accept
 
 _maxsendlen = 51000 * 1024 -- max len of send buffer
 _maxreadlen = 25000 * 1024 -- max len of read buffer
@@ -798,6 +800,7 @@
 		max_connections = _maxselectlen;
 		max_ssl_handshake_roundtrips = _maxsslhandshake;
 		highest_allowed_fd = _maxfd;
+		accept_retry_interval = _accepretry;
 	}
 end
 
@@ -813,6 +816,7 @@
 	_tcpbacklog = tonumber( new.tcp_backlog ) or _tcpbacklog
 	_sendtimeout = tonumber( new.send_timeout ) or _sendtimeout
 	_readtimeout = tonumber( new.read_timeout ) or _readtimeout
+	_accepretry = tonumber( new.accept_retry_interval ) or _accepretry
 	_maxselectlen = new.max_connections or _maxselectlen
 	_maxsslhandshake = new.max_ssl_handshake_roundtrips or _maxsslhandshake
 	_maxfd = new.highest_allowed_fd or _maxfd
@@ -901,6 +905,13 @@
 			next_timer_time = next_timer_time - (_currenttime - _timer);
 		end
 
+		for server, paused_time in pairs( _fullservers ) do
+			if _currenttime - paused_time > _accepretry then
+				_fullservers[ server ] = nil;
+				server.resume();
+			end
+		end
+
 		-- wait some time (0 by default)
 		socket_sleep( _sleeptime )
 	until quitting;