throttling the cpu/memory available to the VM

[Jacob Vorreuter]

Is it possible to specify a max memory usage and cpu usage for the VM
when the runtime system starts?  I would like to be able to run
multiple VMs on the same system and ensure equal distribution of
resources.

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[Dave Smith-10]

From what I know of the VM, Erlang does not provide either of these.
Providing max memory usage is feasible, but I suspect would be
somewhat difficult with the way the GC is structured. I've worked on a
VM (Java) that tried to do strict CPU allocation -- that's a very hard
problem to get right without introducing a lot of accounting overhead.

Really, the operating system is the best place to enforce allocation
of CPU, not the VM (or individual applications).

Hope that helps,

D.

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:29 PM, Jacob Vorreuter
<jacob.vorreuter@...> wrote:

> Is it possible to specify a max memory usage and cpu usage for the VM
> when the runtime system starts?  I would like to be able to run
> multiple VMs on the same system and ensure equal distribution of
> resources.
>
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