[erlang-questions] trying to understand i/o threading (erl +A)

[Bjorn Gustavsson]

Using +A option can only speed up file I/O. It is typically used in embedded
system where you don't have any local file system, only NFS file systems.
You are unlikely to gain anything in other configurations.

/Bjorn

"Count László de Almásy" <calmasy@REDACTED> writes:

> On 11/13/06, Bengt Kleberg <bengt.kleberg@REDACTED> wrote:
> > in your case i would suggest measuring the performance of your
> > application(s?) with increasing values for size, until the performance
> > stops increasing.
> 
> I was hoping for a better understanding of +A as opposed to just using
> trial and error for every application.
> 
> > that might sound like hard work. as an alternative, i think i saw
> > somewhere that _if_ your platform uses the async thread pool you could
> > try setting size to one more than the number of processors on your
> > system. in this day and age i could furthermore guess that processors
> > could be replaced with number of cores.
> 
> In other words, no one else knows the answer to my question either.
> 
> -- 
> Cheers, László
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Björn Gustavsson, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB