Is there a way I can send email notifications faster?

[Richie (Richie Rich)]

@supermathie

Once the email jobs are scheduled, your sidekiq workers are working through them one at a time. Bumping up the sidekiq workers (set DISCOURSE_SIDEKIQ_WORKERS up from 5 to 10, 15, or 20 depending on server capacity) means more jobs get processed at the same time, so the queue gets emptied 2x/3x/4x faster.

Great insight, thank you

Does that DISCOURSE_SIDEKIQ_WORKERS have to be a multiple of 5? Could I set it to 7 for example?

I don’t have that parameter setting in my app.yml so I’ll assume it’s on a default of 5 somewhere.

Can I just create that setting under the existing unicorn workers setting, then rebuild?

Eg:

expose:
  - “443:443”

env:
    UNICORN_WORKERS: 8
    DISCOURSE_SIDEKIQ_WORKERS: 7

Is it as simple as that?