[erlang-questions] erlang smp on aix

[Jon Watte]

Did you enable kernel_poll? And does AIX actually support a suitable kernel
polling mechanism (like epoll, etc)?

Sincerely,

jw


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On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 3:01 AM, caox <caox@REDACTED> wrote:

> hi
>
> we have a application used to run on centos but now we want to migrate it
> to AIX. During the test on Aix, we found the cpu scaling of the system is
> quite disappointing. With 8 cores and erlang smp auto, there were very high
> system cpu consumption and lots of thread_wait_lock call in the
> truss(strace) log, which would not appear on centos under the same test
> scenario. And the sys call will disappear if we turn smp off.
>  So we guess there is something wrong with smp on Aix, perhaps caused by
> the schedulers switching. But we don't know where the thread_wait_call is
> from and what it is for.
> By the way, it is quite strange that the smp description of erl shell would
> be smp32:8 with smp auto on the 8 cores aix.
> Is there any hint to fix the problem? Appreciate your help.
>
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