Ulf Wiger <[email protected]> wrote: uw> Actually, in general, you _should_ leave it running, as other uw> applications on your system may depend on it.
Ulf is right: you ought to leave it running. The protocol is stable, so beyond the very rare bugfix, there's no epmd-was-upgraded-now-what reason to kill it. Killing epmd will definitely confuse other Erlang applications running on that node. In a previous life, in a mobile carrier data center, the Ops folks had added a "killall epmd" thing into their processes without telling us. Then we started getting weird bug reports of "we stopped app A, and then app B went crazy like *this*". A & B weren't inter-dependent from the Ops staffs' limited point of view, but both A & B were Erlang programs. Doesn't matter if they're custom apps, RabbitMQ, Ejabberd, or whatever, just leave epmd running. -Scott _______________________________________________ riak-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com
