Is the number of "workers" in Laravel Octane equal to the number of requests that can be handled simultaneously?

Question

Do I understand correctly that the number of "workers" in Laravel Octane is equal to the number of requests that can be executed simultaneously?

For example, if there are 2 workers, and 2 of them are busy returning CSV exports - new requests will not be processed?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 25 '22 at 23:28

Yes, in Laravel Octane the number of workers is directly responsible for a number of requests that your app can handle simultaneously. To prove that, we can add the following route:

Route::get('longrequest', function () {
    sleep(15);
    return 'done';
});

If you spin a Laravel Octane instance with 2 workers and hit this endpoint twice - the third execution will have to wait until one of two workers are free to process it.

Is the number of "workers" in Laravel Octane equal to the number of requests that can be handled simultaneously?

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