Auto detect the number of CPU's and set worker_processes

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 07:55:49PM -0400, justin wrote:

> I am trying to get fancy and have `nginx.conf` auto-detect the number of
> CPU's on the server and then set `worker_processes` to that number. Here is
> what I have:
> 
>     worker_processes $(cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "processor" | sort -u | wc
> -l);
> 
> Unfortunately, that is throwing an error on nginx start. Is it even possible
> to run shell commands from inside nginx configuration files?

No, it's not currently supported.  You may try e.g. make + sed (or 
any other templating system) to do this, as well as many other 
macro-expansion related things.

Maxim Dounin