Worker Process

Tencent Cloud Developer

Jun 10, 2021 · Backend Development

Understanding Nginx Architecture: Master/Worker Processes, Hot Reload, Epoll, and Load Balancing

The article explains Nginx’s master‑worker architecture, showing how the master process handles signals, restarts workers, and performs hot configuration or binary reloads, while workers use an event‑driven epoll loop with an accept‑mutex to efficiently process connections and balance load across cores without multithreading.