<div dir="ltr">That is correct. We haven't been able to see any increase in performance when the number of pools is increased above 2.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 4:31 PM, Rangel, Raul <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Raul.Rangel@disney.com" target="_blank">Raul.Rangel@disney.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I think someone recently commented that 2 thread pools is the ideal value. Anymore and you don’t see a performance increase.<u></u><u></u></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Raul<u></u><u></u></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in">

<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:varnish-misc-bounces@varnish-cache.org" target="_blank">varnish-misc-bounces@varnish-cache.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:varnish-misc-bounces@varnish-cache.org" target="_blank">varnish-misc-bounces@varnish-cache.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b><a href="mailto:lnsano@bol.com.br" target="_blank">lnsano@bol.com.br</a><br>

<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 06, 2013 2:23 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:varnish-misc@varnish-cache.org" target="_blank">varnish-misc@varnish-cache.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> varnish 3 - thread_pools<u></u><u></u></span></p>

</div><div><div class="h5"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">By the book, the thread_pools should be 2. However the server is multi-processed(8 cpus) and can handle more thread_pools.<u></u><u></u></p>

</div><div><p class="MsoNormal">This server handles more than 5000 requests/sec. <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Is it a good ideia increasing the thread_pools to 8 and decreasing the thread_pool_max?<u></u><u></u></p>

</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">regards,<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Leandro Sano<u></u><u></u></p>

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