[erlang-questions] Multiple core processors

[Gerd Flaig]

Cameron Kerr <ckerr@REDACTED> writes:

> And is there a benchmarking process/document/result for multicore-etc  
> machines. I have an opportunity to use a Sun UltraSPARC T2000 running  
> Solaris and Linux, and would like to get an idea of the likely  
> performance metrics compared to classically threaded programs.

there has been some discussion about this in June:

   http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.erlang.general/15639/focus=15643

What I gather from the conversation is that there is a global disk IO
lock which leads to performance degradation in disk IO intensive
applications, however there are plans to improve the situation.

If I had to make a wild guess, I'd expect that the process ring
benchmark would scale almost linearly with the number of processors.

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