Thank you for the quick answer. On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 4:13 PM, Nick Marino <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Richard, > > Yes, sharing a riak-erlang-client connection process among multiple Erlang > processes should not cause any problems. The riak_pb_socket processes are > implemented using a gen_server, and they use a queuing mechanism to handle > concurrent requests. If process A has sent a request and is waiting for a > response, and process B tries to send a request using the same connection > process, its request will get queued up and will be sent once process A's > request gets a reply. > > Keep in mind though that this queuing mechanism could cause suboptimal > performance if you have many processes competing for use of a single > connection: users of the connection may end up spending a lot of time > blocked, waiting for requests from other processes to finish. Depending on > the circumstances, you may find that it's better to open multiple > connections than to share a single connection among multiple processes. > > Nick > > On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 6:28 AM, Richard Jonas < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Guys, >> >> most of the examples I can see that riak erlang client processes cannot >> be shared with multiple processes. Is it safe if more processes use the >> same riak connection? So in other words: is riak erlang client thread-safe? >> >> Thanks >> >> -- >> Richard Jonas >> Erlang Solutions Hungary Kft >> >> Address: >> Riverpark Office K.32 >> Közraktár street 32. 3/1. >> 1093 Budapest >> Hungary >> Phone/fax: >> +36-1-7000-654 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> riak-users mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.basho.com/mailman/listinfo/riak-users_lists.basho.com >> >> > -- Richard Jonas Erlang Solutions Hungary Kft Address: Riverpark Office K.32 Közraktár street 32. 3/1. 1093 Budapest Hungary Phone/fax: +36-1-7000-654
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