# Recommended number of mediasoup-worker processes **URL:** \ **Category:** mediasoup libraries\ **Created:** [October 24, 2020, 5:26am UTC](https://mediasoup.discourse.group/t/recommended-number-of-mediasoup-worker-processes/1923 "2020-10-24T05:26:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 12
**Author:** ![zaidiqbal](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/mediasoup.discourse.group/zaidiqbal/32/1498_2.png) [@zaidiqbal](https://mediasoup.discourse.group/u/zaidiqbal)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2022, 1:07pm UTC](https://mediasoup.discourse.group/t/recommended-number-of-mediasoup-worker-processes/1923/12 "2022-05-29T13:07:19Z")
I have asked same type of question here about max number of consumers per worker, this will help: > [@Maximum number of consumers per worker is 500 w.r.t CPU?](https://mediasoup.discourse.group/t/maximum-number-of-consumers-per-worker-is-500-w-r-t-cpu/4058): > > It is mentioned in the official docs here: [mediasoup :: Scalability](https://mediasoup.org/documentation/v3/scalability/) and in discourse topic as well here: [A room with 100 participants](https://mediasoup.discourse.group/t/a-room-with-100-participants/1092) Does this mean that there is hard limit of 500 for a worker or does this mean that if I use high end server then the same worker can handle more than 500 consumers? I am using AWS instance g4dn.8xlarge which is a high end server and it has 32 cores. I am using 1 worker per call so each call has it’s own worker. I am showing max 20 streams to each participant so… --- _[View the full topic](https://mediasoup.discourse.group/t/recommended-number-of-mediasoup-worker-processes/1923)._