Akka actor creation

[Jitendra]

Hi All,

I am new to akka. I went through some of the videos of Jones Boner.

He says that in 1GB of RAM, we can create several thousands of threads.

But, with Akka, we can create several millions of actors.

If I am not wrong, actors internally create threads (fork-join threads). Then, how is this possible with Akka.

I feel this contradicting. Can some body please help me in understanding this.

Thanks,

Jitendra

[Konrad Malawski]

Hi Jitendra,

please don't double post messages between akka-dev and akka-user.

This is a "user" question, and has already been answered on that mailing list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/akka-user/VppiTlEGUTc

Actors are multiplexed onto a smaller number of threads, which is why we can afford millions of them.

Happy hakking!

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Cheers,

Konrad 'ktoso' Malawski

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