# 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: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2015, 5:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-avoid-upstream-timeouts/35483/4 "2015-11-12T05:49:23Z")

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General advice is **one worker per CPU core (real or logical)**. I would allow at least 512mb ram per worker as well, so here is hoping you have at least 512mb times the number of logical cores on your server 😉

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