Nginx的worker_processes设置为多少比较好？

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As a general rule you need the only worker with large number of
worker_connections, say 10,000 or 20,000.

However, if nginx does CPU-intensive work as SSL or gzipping and
you have 2 or more CPU, then you may set worker_processes to be equal
to CPU number.

Besides, if you serve many static files and the total size of the files
is bigger than memory, then you may increase worker_processes to
utilize a full disk bandwidth.

Igor Sysoev

一般一个进程足够了，你可以把连接数设得很大。如果有SSL、gzip这些比较消耗CPU的工作，而且是多核CPU的话，可以设为和CPU的数量一样。或 者要处理很多很多的小文件，而且文件总大小比内存大很多的时候，也可以把进程数增加，以充分利用IO带宽（主要似乎是IO操作有block）。

根据我配置实践，服务器是“多个CPU＋gzip+网站总文件大小大于内存”的环境，worker_processes设置为CPU个数的两倍比较好。