Chances are that the workers are going to be spending the most time on CPU. If you have a few too many, it's not super bad.
I'd try going with the same number of workers as you have CPUs. On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Qi Fan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On an 8-core computer, is it better to run 8 node.js processes, or is it > better to run fewer? > > I'm speculating that if both the event loops and system IO are busy then 8/8 > configuration may freeze at a lower load than 7/8 configuration since each > IO operations will suspend nodejs processes. > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
