[SR-Users] worker processes

[Ali Taher]

Hi Alex,

That is clear. I decreased the max worker processes to 20 to be on the safe side. But what is confusing me is what about the 18 worker processes ran by Kamailio, will they overlap with postgres processes or they are the same , knowing that Kamailio role in my case is just getting routing decision by running a query on the database and send it back to the SBC. Excuse my lack of knowledge in how linux processes work.

Regards,
Ali Taher

-----Original Message-----
From: sr-users <sr-users-bounces at lists.kamailio.org> On Behalf Of Alex Balashov
Sent: Tuesday, September 1, 2020 8:22 PM
To: sr-users at lists.kamailio.org
Subject: Re: [SR-Users] worker processes

On 2020-09-01 12:08, Ali Taher wrote:

> I noticed that there is 48 database connections established by 
> Kamailio
> (16 x 3) , can this cause an issue knowing that maximum worker 
> processes is 24 ?
Postgres's ability to serve clients and accommodate queries isn't limited by the number of max_worker_processes. The default is 8 if this value is unset, yet any stock PostgreSQL instance can accommodate more than 8 concurrent connections, clearly. max_worker_processes != max_connections.

As far as the wisdom of setting process limits to equal the number of available CPU cores ("VCPUs"), there's no absolute answer to that. The general danger with doing this is just that a particularly expensive or destructive statement can consume all of the hardware resources, with no safety margins for other processes, and perhaps not even enough for someone to log in and resolve the problem. So, the general recommendation is not allow PostgreSQL to consume every single VCPU or max out any other resource, and that's why most Linux distributions' 
server packages come with these types of settings conservatively tuned.

-- Alex

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