[erlang-questions] Highest number of processes in your system

[Rick Pettit]

On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 10:43:30AM +0000, Joel Reymont wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> What is the highest number of processes that you have seen in your  
> system?
> 
> Anyone with over a million processes?

A google search for "erlang million processes" turns up many links, one of
which being:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erlang_programming_language

"It should also be noted that Erlang processes are neither OS processes nor OS
 threads, they are lightweight threads somewhat similar to Java's
 'green threads'. As a result, Erlang processes are extremely lightweight (the
 estimated minimal overhead of an Erlang process is 300 bytes) and a very large
 number of them can be created without performance degradation (a benchmark
 with 20 million processes was tried[1])."

And the link for the benchmarking:

  http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.functional/msg/33b7a62afb727a4f?dmode=source

-Rick