[erlang-questions] "detached VM" vs "VM under screen"

[Garrett Smith]

On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Garrett Smith <g@REDACTED> wrote:

> It does feel a bit weird to me running a long running process in a
> shell multiplexer. That seems fine for a dev/test environment, but not
> for production. That said, I don't really see anything really wrong
> with it.

I take that last part back!

The screen approach complicates the Erlang process startup on server
boot and probably doesn't work with heart.

run_erl is init script and heart friendly and gives you the same core benefits.

Garrett