nginx and multiple cpu

[Dennis J.]

On 01/13/2010 04:20 PM, Omer Faruk Sen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have  a 8 core (4 core and HT enabled) machine to test nginx. In my
> configuration file
>
> worker_processes  8;
>
> events {
>      worker_connections  30000;
> }
>

[SNIP]

>
> As you can see nginx only use one core not all of them even if I state
> worker_processes  8;
>
> I have used  nginx-0.7.64 and used centos 5.4 compiled using just
> ./configure&&  make&&  make install. I have read that nginx supports
> multiple cpu but as far as I see from mpstat output it doesn't
> Can anyone englighten me about that?

I've seen someting similar during my tests on an 8 core system (no HT). I 
set up a default nginx with and increased the number of worker processes to 
two but when I put load on nginx only one CPU gets used while the other 
stays idle.

Regards,
   Dennis