the phrase "Node.js can fire up child processes or send messages to additional worker processes"
means: You must program that part. You can use http://nodejs.org/api/cluster.html A single instance of Node runs in a single thread. To take advantage of multi-core systems the user will sometimes want to launch a cluster of Node processes to handle the load. or http://nodejs.org/api/child_process.html On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Jasmine <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > After reading a number of papers and journals which describe node as being > a single threaded web server running on a single core, I came across this > popular stack overflow question which to some extent contradicts my > findings: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2387724/node-js-on-multi-core-machines > (please > refer to the second answer, the one with over 200 up-votes) > > it states: > "For big heavy compute tasks like image encoding, Node.js can fire up > child processes or send messages to additional worker processes. In this > design, you'd have one thread managing the flow of events and N processes > doing heavy compute tasks and chewing up the other 15 CPUs." > > Could anyone please clarify which source can be considered as correct? > And also, is node considered follow an event-based concurrency paradigm or > is it a hybrid between event-based and multi-processing? > > Thanks a lot in advance. > > Regards, > Jasmine > > -- > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
