On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 11:21:05AM +0800, Joshua Zhu wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 3:01 AM, Ziyad Saeed <myschizobuddy@gmail.com> wrote:
> > can i set worker_processes to _SERVER["NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS"]
> > looking in phpinfo there is a server variable that mentions the number of
> > processors
> >
>
> No, I don't think so. 'worker_processes' is set only during the
> initialization phase. It expects a number rather than a variable.

Yes, it can be set on start time only.
However, you may use variable value (FreeBSD example):

nginx -g "worker_processes `sysctl -n hw.ncpu`;"


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