On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Trevor Turk <trevort...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I wondered if someone could clarify the relationship between the
> number of nginx workers and passenger workers. If I have a config like
> this:

> worker_processes 6;
> http { passenger_max_pool_size 20; }

> ...will there still be a limit of 20 passenger workers among the 6
> nginx workers, or is the passenger limit a per-nginx-worker value? It
> looks like the passenger_max_pool_size value is maintained no matter
> how many nginx worker process you have, but I wanted to check in any
> case.

> The Phusion Passenger pool size is independent from the number of
> Nginx worker processes that you have.

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Trevor Turk <trevort...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks very much for the reply. I wonder if you (or anyone else) knows
> of some rough guides about how the two sets of workers relate to each
> other. I'm currently using 6 nginx workers to 20 passenger workers,
> but I have no idea how to tell if this is a good relationship or not.
> What I mean is, perhaps 4 nginx workers to 20 passenger workers would
> be better, but I don't know how to tell what is a good balance.

> Setting the number of Nginx workers to the number of CPU cores should
> be sufficient.