Nginx response rate increases with more upstream ports

[Dave Cheney]

Avleen,

Are you able to post your full config ?

Cheers

Dave

On 16/06/2009, at 8:57 PM, Dave Cheney wrote:

> Do all the upstreams run on the same machine ?
>
> On 16/06/2009, at 8:26 PM, Avleen Vig wrote:
>
>> 2009/6/16 Igor Sysoev <is at rambler-co.ru>:
>>> What do you mean by upstream ports ? This
>>>
>>>   upstream backend {
>>>       server  backend:9000;
>>>       server  backend:9001;
>>>       server  backend:9002;
>>>       server  backend:9003;
>>>       ...
>>>   }
>>>
>>> ?
>>>
>>> In this case you run 50 backend processes and they compete for CPU.
>>
>> Hmm
>> I have a total of 40 unique upstream server:port listed, in about 12
>> different upstream{} blocks.
>>
>> Does this mean I should run 40 nginx child processes to get the  
>> most efficiency?
>> Or something which divides equally into 40 (10, 20)?
>>
>