# High load due to peak anonymous sessions, increase unicorn workers?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/high-load-due-to-peak-anonymous-sessions-increase-unicorn-workers/179102>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [February 9, 2021, 6:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/high-load-due-to-peak-anonymous-sessions-increase-unicorn-workers/179102 "2021-02-09T18:19:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![TallTrees](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/talltrees/32/208620_2.png) [@TallTrees](https://meta.discourse.org/u/TallTrees)\
**Post date:** [February 22, 2021, 7:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/high-load-due-to-peak-anonymous-sessions-increase-unicorn-workers/179102/12 "2021-02-22T07:10:25Z")

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Yep, but my suggestion is to boot just the anon users to a cached page with a short time out (60s?) to take their load off in the hope that the rest of the site can keep going in read-write mode.

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