Commit a89843ad authored by Achilleas Pipinellis's avatar Achilleas Pipinellis

Merge branch 'abubakar-unicorn-memory' into 'master'

Setting Unicorn Worker memory limit in gitlab.rb

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab-ce!14466
parents 840e7e0e 432148b6
......@@ -60,7 +60,17 @@ Unicorn master then automatically replaces the worker process.
This is a robust way to handle memory leaks: Unicorn is designed to handle
workers that 'crash' so no user requests will be dropped. The
unicorn-worker-killer gem is designed to only terminate a worker process _in
between requests_, so no user requests are affected.
between requests_, so no user requests are affected. You can set the minimum and
maximum memory threshold (in bytes) for the Unicorn worker killer by
setting the following values `/etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb`:
```ruby
unicorn['worker_memory_limit_min'] = "400 * 1 << 20"
unicorn['worker_memory_limit_max'] = "650 * 1 << 20"
```
Otherwise, you can set the `GITLAB_UNICORN_MEMORY_MIN` and `GITLAB_UNICORN_MEMORY_MIN`
[environment variables](../environment_variables.md).
This is what a Unicorn worker memory restart looks like in unicorn_stderr.log.
You see that worker 4 (PID 125918) is inspecting itself and decides to exit.
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