<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On May 27, 2011, at 10:25 AM, Henning Diedrich wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<font face="Calibri">Does the Erlang VM have a choke threshold
beyond which performance degrades, similar to the 2GB that the
Java VM has/had? [1]<br>
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I understand Erlang has per process gc and not this gc issue
therefore. I am asking not specifically about gc but about any
implicit practical limit.<br></font></div></blockquote></div><br><div>Not a threshold per se, but you can experience serious performance degradation if messages are allowed to accumulate in a process' mailbox. Typical of a producer/consumer situation, when the consumer can't keep up.</div><div><br></div><div>Mihai</div></body></html>