Questions about worker_processes && worker_connections

[Igor Sysoev]

On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, Aleksandar Lazic wrote:

> is this equation valid?
>
> max_clients = worker_processes * worker_connections

Yes.

> or
>
> worker_connections == max_clients
>
> and the worker_processes are only for 'loadbalancing'?

worker_processes are used for
1) SMP,
2) to decrease latency when workers blockend on disk I/O,
3) to limit number of connections per process when select()/poll() is used.


Igor Sysoev
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