Commit c6586b12 authored by Dmitriy Zaporozhets's avatar Dmitriy Zaporozhets

Merge branch 'unicorn-workers' into 'master'

Documentation about unicorn settings.

Helps with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9213180

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## Unicorn Workers
It's possible to increase the amount of unicorn workers and tis will usually help for to reduce the response time of the applications.
It's possible to increase the amount of unicorn workers and tis will usually help for to reduce the response time of the applications and increase the ability to handle parallel requests.
For most instances we recommend using: CPU cores + 1 = unicorn workers.
So for a machine with 2 cores, 3 unicorn workers is ideal.
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With one Unicorn worker only git over ssh access will work because the git over HTTP access requires two running workers (one worker to receive the user request and one worker for the authorization check).
If you have a 512MB machine with a SSD drive you can use two Unicorn workers, this will allow HTTP access although it will be slow due to swapping.
To change the Unicorn workers when you have the Omnibus package please see [the Unicorn settings in the Omnibus GitLab documentation](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/blob/master/doc/settings/unicorn.md#unicorn-settings).
## Database
If you want to run the database separately, the **recommended** database size is **1 MB per user**.
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