Pretty frequently seeing high CPU usage and it’s usually around the 85% mark: [Screenshot 2025-01-25 at 00.47.46] Was previously showing up as unicorn.conf.r: [Screenshot 2025-01-25 at 01.43.52] Could this indicate UNICORN_WORKERS being set too high/low? The server has 64GB RAM (usually shows…

[image] AstonJ: So what I found was reducing the unicorn workers on this server reduced load… So it looks like my issue wasn’t the unicorn workers after all - after @sam ’s update following @LotusJeff ’s thread the server loads have gone back to what they were (less than half of what they had g…

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NateDhaliwal (Nate Dhaliwal) January 25, 2025, 9:22am 3

Yep. I also suggest decreasing the number of unicorn workers:

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