# How to avoid upstream timeouts?

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**Created:** [Novembro 12, 2015, 5:17am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-avoid-upstream-timeouts/35483 "2015-11-12T05:17:57Z")\
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You’re back!

OK, I get that I’m wrong. Is this more on target?

so with 8CPUs and 12GB  
db\_work\_mem: 40MB  
UNICORN\_WORKERS: 8

and with 4 CPUs and 8GB  
db\_work\_mem: 40MB  
UNICORN\_WORKERS: 4

And then I think also involved is the size of the database itself, which we want to be able to get buffered. With a huge database (say postgres\_data is 8GB of disk space and there’s 8GB of ram), you might want to reduce the memory for the unicorn workers?

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