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Improve Nginx Performance: Multi-Threading

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💡 Nginx is an awesome web server and reverse proxy. But some if its defaults are better changed to more sane values.

👉🏼 One such value is "worker_processes". By default, Nginx uses only one CPU core. Set this to "auto" to use all available cores on the system.

By setting worker_processes to auto, Nginx will spin up a number of threads equal to available CPU cores.

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