# How to avoid upstream timeouts?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-avoid-upstream-timeouts/35483
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 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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### Author: ![mpalmer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mpalmer/32/45740_2.png) [@mpalmer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mpalmer)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2015, 5:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-avoid-upstream-timeouts/35483/2 "2015-11-12T05:23:08Z")

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That’s an indication that you don’t have enough Unicorn workers for the number of requests your site is seeing. Consider increasing the `UNICORN_WORKERS` setting in your `app.yml` and rebuilding (you might need to get more RAM to accommodate the larger number of workers).

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