From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2007-09-26T17:16:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Scales just fine !

James Edward Gray II wrote:
> 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.
OT, but is there a combination of libraries/OS/network-level 
accoutrements that would allow a scheduler to migrate the process to 
another host on fork()?

-- 
Alex