[erlang-questions] Low disk logging performance in SMP

[Per Melin]

chaitanya Chalasani:
> I am facing performance issue with my file logger. The file logger is an
> event handler holding the file reference is its state. The performance of
> the module is way ahead in the smp disabled erl shell compared with default
> smp enabled erl shell.

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> Is there a problem with my code or is it a known issue?

It is known that once you queue up a few tens of thousand messages
into a mailbox your performance drops noticeably for doing a receive.

With SMP you will send your one million messages much, much faster
than the logger can process them and the mailbox will immediately fill
up to a point where it will just go slower and slower.