I got my new PC, and tested the ring benchmark on it.. C:\Programfiler\erl5.4.3\bin>erl.exe +P2400100 Eshell V5.4.3 (abort with ^G) 1> zog:start(2400001,1). <0.30.0> Setup : 3.93800 s (1.64083 us per spawn) (2400000 spawns) Run : 2.73400 s (1.13917 us per msg) (2400000 msgs) 2> --- Is it possible to tweek the runtime to run more threads ?