[erlang-questions] How many scheduler threads to I need?

[doug mansell]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Convey Christian J NPRI
<ConveyCJ@REDACTED> wrote:
> Could someone clear this up for me please?
>
>  When I run a simple, single-process Erlang function from the erl shell, I light up both CPU cores on my computer. So...
>
>  * How does a single process light up two cores?  Is one core busy with garbage collection or something?


Running this test under Vista i can see that both CPUs show some
activity, but looking deeper with process explorer there's only
actually one busy thread.  So the OS is scheduling it to run on both
cores.

doug