[erlang-questions] Increasing proceses

Jeremy Raymond jeraymond@REDACTED
Fri Apr 30 21:19:03 CEST 2010


Don't the processes end once you have retrieved the item from the URL?
Perhaps post your code so we can see in more detail what you're trying to
accomplish.

--
Jeremy Raymond


On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 2:21 PM, maruthavanan s
<maruthavanan_s@REDACTED>wrote:

>  HI,
>
> But I will still fall under a situation when number of process exceeds that
> limit.
>
> Thanks,
> Marutha
>
> > From: jeraymond@REDACTED
> > Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:51:22 -0400
> > To: maruthavanan_s@REDACTED
> > CC: erlang-questions@REDACTED
> > Subject: Re: [erlang-questions] Increasing proceses
>
> >
> > Are you running out of Erlang processes? By default the vm has a max of
> 32768
> > processes. You can increase this when starting Erlang via the +P
> parameter.
> > E.g.) erl +P 100000. Reference: http://www3.erlang.org/doc/man/erl.html
> > --
> > Jeremy Raymond
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 1:21 PM, maruthavanan s
> > <maruthavanan_s@REDACTED>wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I have a situation where I need to get response from URL and save it
> when a
> > > event occurs in process.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > To make the other requests non blocking and to hit the URL immediately
> when
> > > ever a new request comes, I spawn a process that invoked HTTP, this
> keeps on
> > > increasing the process and says system limit is reached.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Is it possible to avoid such errors?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Marutha
> > >
>


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