# How to avoid upstream timeouts?

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**Created:** [2015 年11 月 12 日 05:17 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-avoid-upstream-timeouts/35483 "2015-11-12T05:17:57Z")\
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> db\_work\_mem: 40MB  
> UNICORN\_WORKERS: 8  
> and with 4 CPUs and 8GB  
> db\_work\_mem: 40MB  
> UNICORN\_WORKERS: 4

Hi @Falco,

If we traspolate those values to use Puma, what is the recommended number of Threads per worker you suggest? In the case we are talking about a site with 1M requests per day.

Cheers,  
Ismael

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