From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-09-26T11:58:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Scales just fine !

On Sep 25, 2007, at 8:24 PM, Ari Brown wrote:

>
> On Sep 25, 2007, at 8:38 PM, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> In message "Re: Ruby Scales just fine !"
>>     on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:28:36 +0900, Ari Brown  
>> <ari@aribrown.com> writes:
>>
>> |Soo........ Ruby DOES use multiple cores? I read somewhere that it
>> |didn't (probably this thread).
>>
>> Single Ruby process does not.  But we can use as much cores we  
>> have by
>> forking processes, and usually it's the case for web applications.
>
> So fork() moves to a new processor if there is one, else a new thread?

fork() creates another process which your schedular is free to handle  
as it sees best.  This may mean running that process on a different  
CPU, if the schedular decides that's the way to go.

James Edward Gray II