[erlang-questions] Is a process necessary in front of mnesia?

[Moritz Ulrich]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Woody Peterson
<woody.peterson@REDACTED> wrote:
> Are we right to assume we can have possibly tens of thousands of
> processes sending write messages to mnesia directly as opposed to a
> gen_server in front of it?

I'm not very experienced with mnesia, but according to my
understanding: Yes, you could get rid of the gen_server.
Think of it: You have a powerful, distributed database as your
backend, but you tunnel *all* you writes through a single gen_server
instance. Every read, every write gets pushed through the message
queue of a single bottleneck, just to forward it to mnesia.


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