Ahhh, I see.  Thanks for your patience, that helps.

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 10:26 AM, Johan Andrén <[email protected]>
wrote:

> It was more this specific section of the docs I was hoping you'd notice:
>
>
>    1. # Configuration for the fork join pool
>    2. fork-join-executor {
>    3. # Min number of threads to cap factor-based parallelism number to
>    4. parallelism-min = 2
>    5. # Parallelism (threads) ... ceil(available processors * factor)
>    6. parallelism-factor = 2.0
>    7. # Max number of threads to cap factor-based parallelism number to
>    8. parallelism-max = 10
>    9. }
>    10.
>
>
> Note how the parallelism-max is a cap, the actual number is calculated by
> multiplying the number of cores with the parallelism-factor and then
> capping it with the min and max to arrive at the actual number on a given
> computer.
>
> The specific number of 50 is hard to say anything concrete about without
> more info, but note that you will have a number of threads in the JVM not
> being dispatcher threads and even some unrelated to Akka. The dispatcher
> threads are easy to recognize as they are named
> "[systemname]-actor.default-dispatcher-[n]".
>
> --
> Johan Andrén
> Akka Team, Lightbend Inc.
>
>
> On Tuesday, April 19, 2016 at 4:16:05 PM UTC+2, Steve Rehrauer wrote:
>>
>> Thanks, Johan.
>>
>> I did see that page, but if I understand the dispatcher config, the actor
>> name you can define can't be a pattern?  We define many actors without
>> simple names like "myActor".  In order to define a dispatcher for these
>> actors, I presume I'd need to make a code change to use that dispatcher
>> when the actors are created?
>>
>> Long term, that's what I'll want to do.  Short term, I was hoping to find
>> a pure config way to fix this.  Would be happy to override the default
>> dispatcher's config, if that were possible, for a short-term fix.
>>
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