Erlang Scheduler

[Bengt Kleberg]

On 2006-08-25 05:52, lang er wrote:
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> In Erlang(not smp), If one process is doing some blocking work,  Will 
> the whole Erlang  emulator  be blocked?

No.


> For example, if I use blocking socket, or do some CPU-intensive 
> computing , can Erlang preempt such process? How to deal with this 
> situation?

the emulator uses poll/select to avoid blocking.
moreover, as a special case for file io there are extra threads in the 
emulator. see ''erl +A''.


bengt
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