[erlang-questions] How to setup Erlang to run on physical cores

[Dániel Szoboszlay]

Yes, I don't use the hyperthreaded CPUs. But that was the point of the
original question: how to disable hyperthreading for Erlang?
If you want better control over which cores to use, you need to use +sct, I
agree.

On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 at 16:38 Vans S <vans_163@REDACTED> wrote:

> > I have 2 schedulers bound to logical cores 0 & 1, exactly as intended.
>
> Now bind them to cpus 1 and 3.
>
> You got bound to 0 and 1 by default.  Also erlang is not using the
> hyperthreaded cpus you have available.
>
>
> On Monday, October 17, 2016 10:33 AM, Dániel Szoboszlay <
> dszoboszlay@REDACTED> wrote:
>
>
> Well, I tested, and it does work as long as you have 2 thread/core:
>
> erl +sbt ts +SP 50:50
> Erlang/OTP 17 Klarna-g48fc1a0 [erts-6.4.1.5] [source-48fc1a0] [64-bit]
> [smp:2:2] [async-threads:10] [kernel-poll:false]
>
> Eshell V6.4.1.5  (abort with ^G)
> 1> erlang:system_info(cpu_topology).
> [{processor,[{core,[{thread,{logical,0}},
>                     {thread,{logical,2}}]},
>              {core,[{thread,{logical,1}},{thread,{logical,3}}]}]}]
> 2> erlang:system_info(scheduler_bindings).
> {0,1}
>
> I have 2 schedulers bound to logical cores 0 & 1, exactly as intended.
>
> On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 at 16:05 Vans S <vans_163@REDACTED> wrote:
>
> > You may both want to look at the +sct option for the erl executable:
> > http://erlang.org/doc/man/erl.html#+sct
>
> This is the right answer.
>
>
> > erl +sbt ts +SP 50:50
>
> This wont bind to the specific system cores.  It will use all cores the OS
> allows.
>
>
> On Monday, October 17, 2016 9:51 AM, Fred Hebert <mononcqc@REDACTED> wrote:
>
>
> On 10/17, Vans S wrote:
> >I am interested in this too. Only way I know of so far is to use taskset
> or equivalent.  Ideally Erlang should bind each scheduler to each single
> cpu as speced by the topology.
> >
> >    On Monday, October 17, 2016 9:35 AM, Tan Duong <dn.nhattan@REDACTED>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi everybody,
> >I recently get to experiment an Erlang program.My machine is a multicore
> CPUs system, which contains some physical cores (say n), each cores
> features hyper threads (so the maximum CPU threads are 2*n)However, I just
> want to experiment the program on physical cores only (n cores), not with
> hyperthreading.is there any mechanism to do so?
> >Best Regards,Tan
>
> You may both want to look at the +sct option for the erl executable:
> http://erlang.org/doc/man/erl.html#+sct
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Fred.
>
>
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