[erlang-questions] Spawning slaves for separation

[Max Lapshin]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Roger Lipscombe <roger@REDACTED>
wrote:

>
> I'm considering a design like this for something we're doing. I have
> some questions about it.
>
> - Are you running one transcoder in each slave?
>

Yes.


> - Are you finding the fact that each slave is a separate node is a
> resource problem?
>

No. Transcoding video is a very CPU consumptive task. One fast server can
process 5-20 video streams at a moment. Not more.



> - What are you using to manage the slaves, particularly w.r.t recovering
> from crashes in the NIF?
>

When slave is dead, it is catched by monitoring process and it restarts
this node.



> - How are you communicating with the slave?
>

via erlang distribution. Bandwidth between nodes is not an issue, because
CPU is a hardest limit in this task.
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