Hi Samya, On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 9:43 AM, Samya Maiti <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Team, > > I have a small akka application which works fine, processes some thousand > messages per second. > > But I am curious to Know : > 1. How is number of cores of a system related to number of actors? > There is no such relation, you are free to create as many actors as you want. > > 2. How is the upper limit of the number of actors determined was say a 8 > cores system? > There is no upper limit, you are free to create as many actors as you need. The actors' execution is multiplexed over a thread pool (the so-called dispatcher). You can set the number of streams in the dispatchers, see this doc section: http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.3.9/scala/dispatchers.html > > 3. Also is it true to say, at an instance of time maximum actors that can > be in action = number of cores? > I do not understand this question. How can physically any more computational entities be active than the number of actual cores? -Endre > > Regards, > Sam > > -- > >>>>>>>>>> Read the docs: http://akka.io/docs/ > >>>>>>>>>> Check the FAQ: > http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/additional/faq.html > >>>>>>>>>> Search the archives: https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Akka User List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Akka Team Typesafe - The software stack for applications that scale Blog: letitcrash.com Twitter: @akkateam -- >>>>>>>>>> Read the docs: http://akka.io/docs/ >>>>>>>>>> Check the FAQ: >>>>>>>>>> http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/additional/faq.html >>>>>>>>>> Search the archives: https://groups.google.com/group/akka-user --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Akka User List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/akka-user. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
