gistfile1.txt

# Percent of total sytem memory to use
xmx_percent=.7 # Memory to use for supervisord and the OS
worker_mem=1000 # Memory per worker

# Total system memory available
system_memory_in_mb=$(free -m | awk '/Mem:/ {print $2}')

xmx_memory_float=$(echo "$system_memory_in_mb*$xmx_percent"|bc)
xmx_memory=$(echo "($xmx_memory_float+0.5)/1" | bc)

num_workers_float=$(echo "$xmx_memory/$worker_mem"|bc)

num_workers=$(echo "($num_workers_float+0.5)/1" | bc)