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## Load balancing with workers
To have synapse gracefully handle thousands of users, worker support should be enabled. It factors out some homeserver tasks and spreads the load of incoming client and server-to-server traffic between multiple processes. More information can be found at https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/docs/workers.md (which, coincidentally, also is the file which an awk script extracts the endpoint URLs from when running with tag `setup-synapse`).
To enable synapse worker support, set
To have Synapse gracefully handle thousands of users, worker support should be enabled. It factors out some homeserver tasks and spreads the load of incoming client and server-to-server traffic between multiple processes. More information can be found in the [official Synapse workers documentation](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/docs/workers.md).
To enable Synapse worker support, update your `inventory/host_vars/matrix.DOMAIN/vars.yml` file:
```yaml
matrix_synapse_workers_enabled: true
```
in your `inventory/host_vars/matrix.DOMAIN/vars.yml` file.
There, you can also override the default `matrix_synapse_workers_enabled_list` from [`roles/matrix-synapse/defaults/main.yml`](../roles/matrix-synapse/defaults/main.yml).
We support a few configuration presets (`matrix_synapse_workers_preset: one-of-each` being the default configuration):
- `little-federation-helper` - a very minimal worker configuration to improve federation performance
- `one-of-each` - one worker of each supported type
If you'd like more customization power, you can start with one of the presets and tweak various `matrix_synapse_workers_*_count` variables manually.
If you increase worker counts too much, you may need to increase the maximum number of Postgres connections too (example):
```yaml
matrix_postgres_process_extra_arguments: [
"-c 'max_connections=200'"
]
```
If you are not using the inbuilt nginx proxy container but an instance managed by yourself, you are currently on your own as the template needs yet to be adapted to better support this use case.
If you're using the default setup (the `matrix-nginx-proxy` webserver being enabled) or you're using your own `nginx` server (which imports the configuration files generated by the playbook), you're good to go. If you use some other webserver, you may need to tweak your reverse-proxy setup manually to forward traffic to the various workers.
In case any problems occur, make sure to have a look at the [list of synapse issues about workers](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues?q=workers+in%3Atitle) and your `journalctl --unit 'matrix-*'`.
# Specifies worker configuration that should be used when workers are enabled.
#
# The posible values (as seen in `matrix_synapse_workers_presets`) are:
# - "little-federation-helper" - a very minimal worker configuration to improve federation performance
# - "one-of-each" - one worker of each supported type
#
# You can override `matrix_synapse_workers_presets` to define your own presets, which is ill-advised, because it's fragile.
# To use a more custom configuration, start with one of these presets as a base and configure `matrix_synapse_workers_*_count` variables manually, to suit your liking.
matrix_synapse_workers_preset:one-of-each
matrix_synapse_workers_presets:
little-federation-helper:
generic_workers_count:0
pusher_workers_count:0
appservice_workers_count:0
federation_sender_workers_count:1
media_repository_workers_count:0
user_dir_workers_count:0
frontend_proxy_workers_count:0
one-of-each:
generic_workers_count:1
pusher_workers_count:1
appservice_workers_count:1
federation_sender_workers_count:1
media_repository_workers_count:1
# Disabled until https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/8787 is resolved.
user_dir_workers_count:0
frontend_proxy_workers_count:1
# Controls whether the matrix-synapse container exposes the various worker ports
# (see `port` and `metrics_port` in `matrix_synapse_workers_enabled_list`) outside of the container.
Slavi Pantaleev
3 years ago