Is the auto parameter of the worker_processes directive planned to support the Docker runtime?

Maxim Dounin mdounin at mdounin.ru
Thu Apr 12 15:30:15 UTC 2018


Hello!

On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 10:33:36AM -0400, agile6v wrote:

> Hi, Maxim Dounin
> 
> Currently obtaining the number of CPU cores in Docker actually obtains the
> number of CPU cores for the host, resulting in that the number of processes
> started by "worker_processes auto" cannot match the CPU resources requested
> by the container itself. 
> 
> For example, if the host has 24 CPU cores and the number of CPU cores
> allocated to the container is 4, Nginx will also start 24 worker processes
> if the worker_processes auto directive is set, which is not what we
> expected.
> 
> Is there any plan to support this feature?

See https://trac.nginx.org/nginx/ticket/1151. If you have a good 
solution, consider sharing.

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Maxim Dounin
http://mdounin.ru/


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