worker_processes is a directive that determines the number of worker processes spawned by Nginx to handle incoming requests. Simply put, a single-threaded process with default value of 1 which means that it uses only a single CPU core. As for performance improvement here’s a neat thing you could try.
Prerequisites
- Nginx
Solution
Open the main nginx.conf file, find the directive worker_processes and set it’s value to auto. For instance:
## nginx.conf
...
worker_processes auto;
Step 2. Restart Nginx: sudo systemctl restart nginx.
Conclusion
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