what a worker does?

[Roxis]

On Monday 30 June 2008, Paul wrote:
> A worker is  a process of nginx.. Each process is multithreaded and can

nope, no threads
Asynchronous I/O for network and blocking I/O for disk access

> handle thousands of connections each.
> You can have one worker and 50,000 connections to it, but it's good to
> have at least as many workers as you have CPUs and I usually multiply
> this times 4 (so 4 worker per CPU)..
> Worker connections is how many connections each process (worker) can
> have open at one time (max files open, sockets, etc)