Boosting matrix\/synapse by using workers<\/strong>
I've been running a synapse homeserver<\/a> for nearly a year and it works just fine, but there's one bottleneck: Python's single-threadedness. It only utilizes one core, the other are mostly idling (or used for the database). Recently I've learned that there's a solution for that (although currently considered to be experimental): Workers<\/a>. By splitting synapse into a collection of processes which perform different tasks it's possbile to utilize all the cores of the CPU - even running the workers on different machines, loadbalancing the task, whatever. There are two catches, though:
I've been running a synapse homeserver<\/a> for nearly a year and it works just fine, but there's one bottleneck: Python's single-threadedness. It only utilizes one core, the other are mostly idling (or used for the database). Recently I've learned that there's a solution for that (although currently considered to be experimental): Workers<\/a>. By splitting synapse into a collection of processes which perform different tasks it's possbile to utilize all the cores of the CPU - even running the workers on different machines, loadbalancing the task, whatever. There are two catches, though: