On 9 Aug 2009, at 07:01, Nitin Borwankar wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I may get *free* access to an 8 core 32G server machine and am  
> curious if
> the underlying Erlang layer will automagically spread itself across  
> 8 cores
> or does anything need to be done in particular while build, install or
> config?

My experience is that it does. I tested up to 32 cores/threads last  
year and saw linear growth to 8-14 cores. Erlang R13B is supposed to  
break the 8-14 barrier and the brand new R13B01 goes even further to  
remove non-parallelisms in the Erlang VM. I'd suggest you try and make  
sure to try Erlang R13B01.

Cheers
Jan
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>
> Second this is a 64 bit RHEL or FC machine ( not sure exactly whihc  
> but it
> doesn't matter much)  so the Ubuntu niceness is missing.
> So when installing from release tarball what's the best way to install
> dependencies ( the instructions seem only to talk about debian apt-get
> installs).
> Are there recent RPM's that can be installed via yum that will  
> satisfy needs
> of 0.90 and beyond ? Anyone done this before ?
>
>
>
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