[erlang-questions] "processor affinity" for processes

[David King]

> but what if I want to run two Erlang nodes on on dual CPU machine?
> Will commands bellow work?
> ~/Desktop/tmp% erl -sname cpu1 +S 1
> ~/Desktop/tmp% erl -sname cpu2 +S 1
> Will each of them grab it's own CPU, or this will be left to the  
> mercy of
> OS?

They will be left at the mercy of the OS. In reality, that's probably  
better. The OS knows a whole lot more about what else is running on  
the machine than Erlang does, and its scheduler is a much better place  
to put things like cache-locality checking than in every program.