[erlang-questions] what means busy_wait in msacc erl 19.0?

Jesper Louis Andersen jesper.louis.andersen@REDACTED
Mon Jun 27 17:05:11 CEST 2016


On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 4:43 PM, Max Lapshin <max.lapshin@REDACTED> wrote:

> What does busy_wait means here?  Is it a waisted CPU that I need to
> optimize to handle more input traffic? Or is it cpu that will be used as
> soon as my load grows?


My guess is that it is busy-waiting on the CPU in order to be able to serve
new events with lower latency. So once your system increases its traffic
load, less time will be spent waiting.


-- 
J.
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