Should the dispatcher run on only one server?

[brenogazzola]

I was trying to figure out if having a dispatcher process running on multiple servers would be a problem, and I noticed on the rake tasks there are there are two other tasks (workand dispatch) that boot solid_queue with only those of two processes.

So my question is: If I have multiple servers, am I supposed to use solid_queue:start on all of them, or do I use solid_queue:start on a single one and solid_queue:work on the rest?

[rosa]

Great question! Having multiple dispatcher processes running on multiple servers is totally fine. We do that for HEY. The only reason to have those other rake tasks was for convenience, as in HEY, we have VMs dedicated to workers and VMs dedicated to the dispatcher, but it doesn't need to be that way.

[brenogazzola]

Great, thanks!