# Browser upgrade fails when discourse is configured to use one unicorn worker **URL:** \ **Category:** Bug\ **Created:** [October 17, 2023, 6:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/browser-upgrade-fails-when-discourse-is-configured-to-use-one-unicorn-worker/282562 "2023-10-17T18:48:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![RBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@RBoy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RBoy)\ **Post date:** [October 17, 2023, 6:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/browser-upgrade-fails-when-discourse-is-configured-to-use-one-unicorn-worker/282562/1 "2023-10-17T18:48:47Z")
Linked to the posts here where it was suggested this may be a bug. > [@Builds taking very long time](https://meta.discourse.org/t/builds-taking-very-long-time/217001/23): > > This seems like a bug, especially as the system cuts down to a single unicorn temporarily very shortly afterwards. The number 2 is hardcoded, as is the number 1 for the reduction. Edit: looks like this change introduced the inconsistency [https://github.com/discourse/docker\_manager/commit/8bfea831c7b423d26d85585f9a3d7301d58e00ae](https://github.com/discourse/docker_manager/commit/8bfea831c7b423d26d85585f9a3d7301d58e00ae) I think your post (and this reply) should be a in a new thread, in the bugs category. > [@Builds taking very long time](https://meta.discourse.org/t/builds-taking-very-long-time/217001/22): > > I’m also going to add more to this, I’m running a lean system (1GB ram) and a small site. It has 2 unicorn workers and between them each was taking up 30% of the memory which was causing a lot of [memory thrashing](https://meta.discourse.org/t/limiting-the-number-of-unicorns-memory-usage-and-swapping/274954), so I decided to cut down the number from 2 to 1 (which I believe can handle about 10 concurrent connections each). This made a HUGE difference and made the page loads almost instantaneous and reduced swapping by a factor of 5-10 (depending on what was being loaded). The downside that … --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/browser-upgrade-fails-when-discourse-is-configured-to-use-one-unicorn-worker/282562)._