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Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 00:43:47 +0200
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Subject: Re: Erlang processes in node pool
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Hey Bikram

Can you please elaborate more on the topic, so that the poor guys not
being able to attend the today meeting can follow the discussion.

Cheers and Thanks!
Andr=E9

On 6 June 2012 00:30, Bikram <razorp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In=A0continuation=A0to my comment on cross node process management. Given=
 below
> are couple of links that I found useful:
>
> http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/pool.html#start-1
> http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/slave.html#start_link-1
> http://www.erlang.org/doc/design_principles/distributed_applications.html
>
> It seems I was mistaken in assuming that state is transferred automatical=
ly,
> which=A0apparently=A0is not the case. But maintaining a list of nodes and=
 by
> sending a message to a supervisor/gen_server on next node in a list in st=
ate
> on process terminate; the transfer of state can probably be achieved (in
> theory).
>
> However application redundancy at cluster level can also be achieved
> (http://www.erlang.org/doc/design_principles/distributed_applications.htm=
l)
> to the same effect. But state=A0preservation=A0(or a pseudo effect of tha=
t)
> would depend on the design of the application (e.g. having a replicated
> in-memory mnesia cluster for storing the state).
>
> All these being my wild ideas, would be good to hear views on this.
>
> Best,
> Bikram