Logging to one process from thousands: How does it work?

[Joel Reymont]

Folks,

I have just rewrote some code from Haskell to Erlang and there's one  
thing that baffles me.

I tried to approach Haskell the way I would code in Erlang and set up  
a logger thread with an unbounded message queue. I then launched a  
few hundred/thousand threads that traced to the logger periodically.  
This is no different than using disk_log in Erlang, I think.

The Haskell logger thread got quickly overwhelmed with messages I  
think. The queue build-up was huge. How does it work with Erlang? Is  
the scheduler specially tuned somehow to give different priorities to  
different threads? The Haskell scheduler, I believe, is just round- 
robin.

	Thanks, Joel

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